Method and descriptors for comparing object-induced information flows in a plurality of interaction networks

ABSTRACT

A method of tracking information flows through multiple network systems includes selecting a primary network system from a population of primary and secondary network systems, wherein each of the primary and secondary network systems include network nodes, selecting first selected characteristic features that identify network nodes of the primary network system that provide interaction between the selected primary network system and secondary network systems, identifying at least one secondary network system that is capable of interacting with the network nodes of the primary network system, subdividing the primary network into subnetwork systems based on identifying primary network nodes that provide interaction between the primary network system and secondary network nodes, identifying the subnetwork systems that are capable of interacting with one or more network nodes of the secondary network systems, identifying a subnetwork node count of the primary network nodes in each subnetwork, identifying objects that are capable of interacting with the primary network nodes, and determining a coincidence frequency or a coincidence measurement between features of objects interacting with the primary network nodes and the features of the primary network nodes that indicate information exchanges between the primary and secondary network nodes.

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Ser.No. 62/260,088, filed on 25 Nov. 2015, incorporated by reference hereinin its entirety.

The disclosed embodiments relate generally to information tracking, andmore particularly to identifying information flows in multipleinteracting dynamic network systems.

BACKGROUND

In the existing literature, the terms “information flow” and“information flow analysis” are usually used in reference to theanalysis of computer network systems. Thus, a hall mark of computernetwork systems is that the information flowing through these networksystems causes changes to the connectivity or network topology of thesenetwork systems. The term connectivity refers to the transfer ofinformation from one network node to another and the term network noderefers to a connection point or redistribution point for the propagationof information.

For example, network nodes transmit signals by affecting, directly orindirectly, properties of a set of neighboring network nodes which, inturn, affect properties of neighboring nodes of the set of neighboringnodes, and in turn propagate changes to all network nodes involved inthe distribution of the signals, which may include network nodesthroughout a plurality of connected network systems. The propagation ofthe signals through these network systems depends on attributes of thesignals and the topology of the network systems. A network system'sability to vary network topologies as a consequence of the signalsflowing through the network system enables the injection of a pluralityof simultaneous signals for formulating the network system's response toinput signals.

While the computer industry has developed many tools for informationflow analysis and implementation, this is not the case for analysis ofbiological or social network systems.

SUMMARY

Analyzing the complexity of a regulatory scheme of biological or socialnetwork systems requires special tools and methods for determiningrelationships between network topologies, the routing of informationflows through a plurality of interacting dynamic network systems, andthe qualities of objects or persons interacting with these dynamicnetwork systems. Understanding how these interacting relationshipsaffect regulatory functions of complex network systems is at least onekey for predicting behavior of organisms and responses of complexsystems to network perturbations.

In the existing literature, the terms “information flow” and“information flow analysis” are usually used in reference to theanalysis of computer programs that combine elements of control flow anddata flow analysis in some manner. However, in this application theseterms are used to describe the utility of novel descriptors and methodsthat determine the distribution of information associated with objectsor persons in dynamic interaction networks, social networks andbiological networks and use this information for predicting, describingand managing the behavior of objects, or persons that exchangeinformation with these network systems.

The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to a method forcreating new descriptor sets for biological substances, man-made devisesor persons that allow the tracking of information flows caused by“objects/persons” in multiple interacting dynamic network systems. Thesenew descriptor sets are anticipated to be useful for the diagnosis ofdisease, for interpreting the significance of changes in physiologicmeasurements produced by devices used for monitoring physiologicparameters, for predicting effects of biologically active substances inbiological systems, for determining the spread of infectious agents insocial networks, for selecting and managing portfolios consisting ofbiological active agents, financial instruments, products and forevaluating behaviors of persons exchanging information via socialnetworks or dynamic interaction networks. However, although theapplications of the described methodology and descriptors are myriad, afocus of this patent application is to describe the manufacture ofdescriptors of objects or persons enabling the tracking of informationflows in biological or social networks systems.

For purposes of the disclosed embodiments, the term object may include,without limitation, one or more of contagions, man-made or naturaloccurring biologically active substances and mixtures thereof, medicinesof various origins, plants, microorganisms, devices that measurefunctions of biological systems, and persons interacting with socialnetwork systems.

The disclosed embodiments are directed to a method of trackinginformation flows through multiple network systems including selecting aprimary network system from a population of primary and secondarynetwork systems, wherein each of the primary and secondary networksystems comprise network nodes, selecting first selected characteristicfeatures that identify network nodes of the primary network system thatprovide interaction between the selected primary network system andsecondary network systems, identifying at least one secondary networksystem that is capable of interacting with the network nodes of theprimary network system, subdividing the primary network into subnetworksystems based on identifying primary network nodes that provideinteraction between the primary network system and secondary networknodes, identifying the subnetwork systems that are capable ofinteracting with one or more network nodes of the secondary networksystems, identifying a subnetwork node count of the primary networknodes in each subnetwork, identifying objects that are capable ofinteracting with the primary network nodes, and determining acoincidence frequency or a coincidence measurement between features ofobjects interacting with the primary network nodes and the features ofthe primary network nodes that indicate information exchanges betweenthe primary and secondary network nodes.

The first selected characteristic features may be selected from propernames, synonyms or symbols of network nodes of interaction networksystems, measurements associated with network nodes of interactionnetwork systems, a plurality of measurements associated with networknodes of interaction network systems, proper names and synonyms ofgroups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols of networknodes of interaction network systems, and symbols of groups of networknodes of interaction network systems.

Identifying at least one secondary network system that is capable ofinteracting with the network nodes of the primary network system mayinclude randomly selecting second selected characteristic features ofnetwork nodes of randomly selected interaction networks stored in adatabase, using the first selected characteristic features and thesecond selected characteristic features for determining coincidencefrequencies or coincident measurements of the first selectedcharacteristic features with the second selected characteristic featuresand recording the results, and using the recorded coincidence frequencyor coincidence measurement results for selecting one or more secondarynetwork systems having at least one network node capable of interactingwith the primary network system.

The database may include one or more of the Medline database, PubMeddatabases, EMBL databases, World Traditional Medicine Patent Database,Chinese Traditional Medicine Database, complementary and alternativemedicine databases, Wikipedia, collections of digitized publications,measurements collected by surveillance systems, measurements collectedby bio-surveillance systems, measurements collected by diagnosticsystems, measurements collected by wearable devices, measurementscollected by wearable electronic systems, measurements collected bywearable sensors, measurements collected by wearable diagnostic systems,measurements collected through crowd sourcing, medical record databases,adverse event reporting system databases, DHARA databases, and Ayurvedahealth care system databases.

The secondary network systems may include one or more of the internet,social networks, ecologic networks, biologic networks, nutrientnetworks, biologic communication networks, epidemiologic networks,protein networks, supply networks, demand networks, shopping networks,electricity networks, power transmission networks, manufacturingnetworks, traffic networks, communication networks, wireless networks,financial networks, protein networks, cellular networks, cellularpathways, metabolic networks, gene networks, physiologic networks, organsystem networks, cellular communication networks, cell signalingnetworks, intracellular communication networks, neuronal networks,disease networks, organelle networks, bacterial networks, viralnetworks, health care networks, security networks, criminal networks,military networks, immunologic networks, and intelligence networks.

Subdividing the primary network into subnetworks may include selectingcharacteristic features of the primary network nodes, selectingcharacteristic features of the secondary network nodes, and using thecharacteristic features of the primary network nodes and secondarynetwork nodes for determining coincident measurements or co-occurrencefrequency measurements indicating interactions between the primarynetwork nodes and secondary network nodes in the database and recordingthe results.

The method may include determining the capacity of the objects to affectinformation transfer between the primary network system and a selectedsecondary network system using a first process including selectingontologies of the subnetworks, and selecting ontologies of objectscapable of interacting with said subnetwork for determining coincidencefrequencies or coincidence measurements between instances in saidsubnetworks ontologies and instances in said object ontologies, andrecording the result for said co-occurrence frequency or coincidencemeasurements, a second process including selecting a threshold for saidco-occurrence frequency or coincidence measurements for determining thenumber of subnetwork nodes in subnetworks having co-occurrencefrequencies or coincidence measurements above said selected threshold,and recording the results as object reachable subnetwork node counts ofthe subnetworks or as edge density measurements for said object and saidsubnetworks, and storing the results as edge density based objectdescriptors that provide estimates for the capacity of the objects toaffect a transfer of information between the primary network system anda selected plurality of the secondary network systems.

The method may further include normalizing the edge density based objectdescriptors by determining ratios of the edge density measurements andthe subnetwork node counts of the subnetworks of the primary networksystem.

The ratios may be determined using an instance of object associated edgedensity measurements as a numerator and an instance of subnetwork nodecounts of subnetworks of the primary network as a denominator, and themethod includes recording the resulting node count ratios.

The ratios may be determined using an instance of object associated edgedensity measurements as a denominator and an instance of subnetwork nodecounts of subnetworks of the primary network as a numerator, and themethod includes recording the resulting node count ratios.

The method may include aggregating the count ratios for the selectedsubnetworks and using the aggregated count ratios as estimates of thecapacity of objects to affect information transfer between selectedsubnetworks of the selected primary network system and a selectedsecondary network system.

The method of may include determining a second set of descriptor sets byidentifying objects that are capable of interacting with the primarynetwork nodes by selecting characteristic features of the objects anddetermining occurrence frequencies or coincident measurements betweenthe selected characteristic features of the objects and characteristicfeatures of the primary network nodes, identifying and counting a numberof network nodes in each subnetwork of the primary network that arecapable of interacting or exchanging information with the identifiedobjects, recording the node counts as focused subnetwork node counts,adding the co-occurrence frequency or coincident measurements of objectsassociated with respective subnetwork node of subnetworks of the primarynetwork and recording the results as identifying a sum of co-occurrencefrequency measurements for the objects obtained for each subnetworksnode of subnetworks of the primary network, storing the sum ofco-occurrence frequency measurements of said objects for said subnetworknode counts of the primary network as information density measurementsof the objects, wherein the information density measurements of saidobjects provide estimates of the capacity of objects to affectinformation transfer between the subnetworks and the selected secondarynetwork systems.

The method may include using the second descriptor set in hierarchicalcluster analysis to identify groups of objects that induce similarrouting of information flows in a plurality of interacting networksystems and groups of network topologies regulating similar informationflows.

The method of may include using the edge density based objectdescriptors for information flow analysis.

The method may include using the second descriptor set for informationflow analysis.

The subnetwork ontologies may be derived from protein networks forcreating the descriptors for information flow analysis

The sub network ontologies may be disease based and derived from proteinnetworks for creating the descriptors for information flow analysis

The sub network ontologies may be MedDRA Term based sub networkontologies derived from protein networks for creating the descriptorsfor information flow analysis

The sub network ontologies may be physiology based sub networkontologies derived from protein networks for creating the descriptorsfor information flow analysis

The method may include using the second descriptor set for informationflow analysis for selected herbs and drugs using disease based subnetwork ontologies derived from protein networks.

The method may include using the second descriptor set for informationflow analysis for selected herbs and drugs using MedDRA Term based subnetwork ontologies derived from protein networks.

The method may include using the second descriptor set for informationflow analysis for selected herbs and drugs using physiology based subnetwork ontologies derived from protein networks.

The method may include using the edge density based object descriptorsfor information flow analysis for selected herbs and drugs using diseasebased sub network ontologies derived from protein networks.

The method may include using the edge density based object descriptorsfor information flow analysis for selected herbs and drugs using MedDRATerm based sub network ontologies derived from protein networks.

The method may include using the edge density based object descriptorsfor information flow analysis for selected herbs and drugs usingphysiology based sub network ontologies derived from protein networks.

The disclosed embodiments are also directed to a method for producingnovel descriptors of objects or persons including a first step ofselecting a first set of characteristic features of network-nodes of afirst interaction network system of interest further comprising the useof said selected characteristic features of said network nodes of saidfirst selected interaction network system for creating a firstdescriptor set of said first interaction network system,

wherein the characteristic features may be selected from the groupcomprising proper names, synonyms or symbols of network nodes ofinteraction network systems, measurements associated with network nodesof interaction network systems, a plurality of measurements associatedwith network nodes of interaction network systems, proper names andsynonyms of groups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols ofnetwork nodes of interaction network systems, symbols of groups ofnetwork nodes of interaction network systems,

wherein the interaction network systems may be selected from the groupcomprising the internet, social networks, ecologic networks, biologicnetworks, epidemiologic networks, supply networks, demand networks,shopping networks, electricity networks, power transmission networks,manufacturing networks, traffic networks, communication networks,wireless networks, financial networks, protein networks, cellularnetworks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks,physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellular communicationnetworks, cell signaling networks, intracellular communication networks,neuronal networks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterialnetworks, viral networks, health care networks, security networks,criminal networks,

a second step of using said first descriptor set of said first networksystem for selecting a second, third, fourth . . . nth interactionnetwork system interacting directly or indirectly or exchanginginformation directly or indirectly with said first interaction networksystem by using a first process for randomly selecting characteristicfeatures of network-nodes of randomly selected interaction networks in adatabases, a second process using said first descriptor set of saidfirst network system and said randomly selected characteristic featuresof network nodes of said randomly selected interaction network systemfor determining coincidence frequencies or coincident measurements ofsaid first descriptor set with said randomly selected characteristicfeatures of network nodes of said randomly selected interaction networksin said database and recording the results, and a third process usingsaid recorded results for selecting a second, third, fourth . . . nthinteraction network system possessing at least one network node capableof interacting with or exchanging information with said first selectedinteraction network system,

wherein the database may be selected from the group comprising theMedline database, PubMed databases, EMBL databases, World TraditionalMedicine Patent Database, Chinese Traditional Medicine Database,complementary and alternative medicine database, Wikipedia, collectionsof digitized publications, measurements collected by surveillancesystems, measurements collected by bio surveillance systems,measurements collected by diagnostic systems, measurements collected bywearable devices, measurements collected by wearable electronic systems,measurements collected by wearable sensors, measurements collected bywearable diagnostic systems, measurements collected through crowdsourcing, medical record database, adverse event reporting systemdatabase, DHARA database, Ayurveda health care system databases,

wherein the second process for determining coincidence frequencies orcoincident measurements comprises the selection of an instance of afirst descriptor set and the selection of an instance of a seconddescriptor set and the selection of a database and the use of a textmining means for determining how often an instance of a first descriptorset co-occurs with an instance of a second descriptor set in saiddatabase and recording the results; likewise determination ofcoincidence measurements comprises the selection of an instance of afirst descriptor set and the selection of an instance of a seconddescriptor set and the selection of a data bases and the use of a meansfor identifying measurements relating an instance of a first descriptorset and an instance of a second descriptor set in said database andrecording the results;

a third step comprising a third method for selecting a second, third,fourth . . . nth set of characteristic features of network-nodes of saidsecond, third, fourth, nth interaction network system further comprisingthe use of said second, third, fourth . . . nth set of characteristicfeatures of said network nodes of said second, third, fourth, . . . nthinteraction network system for creating a second, third, fourth . . .nth descriptor set of said second, third, fourth . . . nth interactionnetwork system selected in said second step.

a fourth step comprising a fourth method using said first descriptor setof said first interaction network system and using said second, third,fourth . . . nth descriptor set of said second, third, fourth . . . nthinteraction network system and said second process of said second stepand said databases for selecting subsets of descriptor sets of saidfirst interaction network systems describing subsets of network nodes ofsaid first interaction network system interacting directly or indirectlyor exchanging information directly or indirectly with network nodes ofsaid second, third, fourth . . . nth interaction network system.

a fourth process for determining the number of network nodes in saidfirst, second, third, fourth subnetwork system of said first interactionnetwork systems and recording the results wherein said results may betermed first, second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork-node counts ofsaid subnetwork system of said first interaction network system arefurther termed SN1-nCN1

a fifth step comprising a fifth method for selecting a finite set ofobjects termed O1-m interacting directly or indirectly or exchanginginformation directly or indirectly with said first interaction networksystem, wherein said fifth method comprises a fifth process using saidfirst descriptor set of said first interaction network system and usingrandomly selected characteristic features of randomly selected objectsand said second process of said second step and said databases fordetermining coincidence frequencies or coincident measurements of saidfirst descriptor set with said randomly selected characteristic featuresof said randomly selected objects in said databases.

selecting coincidence frequency measurements or a coincident measurementthreshold and using said threshold for selecting incidences of saidcoincidence frequency measurements or said coincident measurements forsaid descriptor sets in said databases and recording the results.

using said selected coincidence frequency measurements or coincidentmeasurements for selecting objects capable of interacting or exchanginginformation with at least one or a plurality of network nodes of saidfirst selected interaction network system and recording said selectedobjects in a database.

wherein the objects are selected from the group comprising members ofsocial networks, members of financial networks, members of ecologicnetworks, prescription medicines, over the counter drugs, medicinalherbs, natural products, Ayurvedic medicines, Chinese traditionalmedicines, Natural medicines, bacteria, algae, Organic and inorganicchemical compositions, Foods, nutrients, vitamins, microorganisms,viruses, supplements, vitamins, mobile devices, patients, clients,communities, members of communities, financial instruments, bonds,companies, members of physiologic networks, members of organ systemnetworks, members of cellular networks members of tissue networks

a sixth step comprising the selection of a first set of characteristicfeatures of said selected objects and the use of said characteristicfeatures of said selected objects as first intermittent descriptor setof said selected objects.

wherein the first set of characteristic features of said objects areselected from the group comprising proper names and synonyms of objects,symbols for objects, collection of physical properties of objects,collections of measurements associated with objects, unique identifiersof objects in a database

a seventh step comprising a sixth method using said first intermittentdescriptor set of said objects and using said first, second, third,fourth . . . nth subnetwork descriptor sets of said first selectedinteraction network system and using said second process of said secondstep and using said databases for identifying objects capable ofinteracting directly or indirectly or of exchanging information directlyor indirectly with at least one network node of said first, second,third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork system of said first network systemand recording the results;

the sixth method may comprise a process using said first set ofintermittent object descriptors and said first, second, third, fourth .. . nth set of subnetwork descriptors of said first, second, third,fourth . . . nth subnetwork of said first selected interaction networksystem and said second process of said second step and said databasesfor determining coincidence frequencies or coincident measurements ofsaid first set of intermittent object descriptors and said first,second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork descriptors of saidsubnetwork systems of said first selected interaction network system insaid database and recording the results, selecting a threshold of saidcoincidence frequency measurements or coincident measurements forselecting at least one or a plurality of network nodes in said first,second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork system of said firstinteraction network system capable of interacting or exchanginginformation with said objects;

a tenth process for counting the number of said selected network nodesfor said subnetwork systems and said objects and recording the resultswherein said results are termed first, second, third, fourth . . . nthobject-subnetwork-interaction node counts hereinafter further termedO1-n SN1-n ICN1;

an eight step including a seventh method using saidobject-subnetwork-interaction node counts termed O1-n SN1-n ICN1 of saidobjects as numerators and using said subnetwork-node counts termedSN1-nCN1 of said subnetworks of said first interaction network system asdenominator for determining the ratio between said subnetwork nodecounts and recording the result for said objects O1-m and saidsubnetwork system SN11-n wherein said results, termed normalized first,second, third, fourth object subnetwork-interaction interference scores,are further termed O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1;

a ninth step comprising the recording of said normalizedobject-subnetwork interaction interference scores O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1 forsaid subnetwork systems as descriptors of said objects in a database;

a tenth step comprising an eighth method using said object-subnetworkinteraction interference scores O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1 and an eleventh processfor determining similarities between said object-subnetwork interactioninterference scores of said objects and displaying the results;

wherein the eleventh process is selected from the group comprisinghierarchical cluster analysis, principal component analysis, vectormachines, k means analysis, profile similarity analysis.

The objects may be selected from the group comprising members of socialnetworks, members of financial networks, members of ecologic networks,prescription medicines, over the counter drugs, medicinal herbs, naturalproducts, Ayurvedic medicines, Chinese traditional medicines, Naturalmedicines, bacteria, algae, Organic and inorganic chemical compositions,Foods, nutrients, vitamins, microorganisms, viruses, supplements,vitamins, mobile devices, patients, clients, communities, members ofcommunities, financial instruments, bonds, companies, members ofphysiologic networks, members of organ system networks, members ofcellular networks members of tissue networks.

The descriptors may be used for determining similarities betweeninformation flows induced by said objects or persons in interactionnetworks, and wherein said interaction networks are selected from thegroup comprising the internet, social networks, ecologic networks,biologic networks, epidemiologic networks, supply networks, demandnetworks, shopping networks, electricity networks, power transmissionnetworks, manufacturing networks, traffic networks, communicationnetworks, wireless networks, financial networks, protein networks,cellular networks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks,physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellular communicationnetworks, cell signaling networks, intracellular communication networks,neuronal networks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterialnetworks, viral networks, health care networks, security networks,criminal networks.

The network systems may be selected from the group comprisingepidemiologic networks, biologic communication networks, proteinnetworks, cellular networks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, genenetworks, physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellularcommunication networks, cell signaling networks, intracellularcommunication networks, neuronal networks, disease networks, organellenetworks, bacterial networks, viral networks.

The objects may be selected from the group comprising prescriptionmedicines, traditional medicines, medicinal herbs, foods, naturalproducts, experimental medicines, Ayurvedic medicines, microorganisms,infectious agents.

The coincidence measurements may be selected from the group comprisingmeasurements produced by wearable devices.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a computing apparatus that may be usedto practice aspects of the disclosed embodiment; and

FIGS. 2 through 5 illustrate the exemplary embodiments described herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Previously described methods do not provide novel descriptor sets asdescribed herein and do not allow simultaneous assessment of effects ofobjects or persons on information flows in multiple interacting dynamicnetwork systems.

The general scheme of the method used for generating the new descriptorsets of the disclosed embodiments is illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3.However the configurations shown in these Figures should not be regardedas a limitation of the disclosed embodiments but rather as anillustration of the methodology for constructing the novel descriptorsets because it would be well understood by one skilled in the art thatthe sequences of the steps shown in the figures and described herein mayrearranged in any suitable order and in any number of different ways.

In at least one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the techniquesdisclosed herein may be executed by one or more computers under thecontrol of one or more programs stored on computer readable medium. FIG.1 shows a block diagram of an exemplary computing apparatus 100 that maybe used to practice aspects of the disclosed embodiment. The apparatus100 may include computer readable program code stored on at least onecomputer readable medium 102 for carrying out and executing the processsteps described herein. The computer readable medium 102 may be a memoryof the computing apparatus 100. In alternate aspects, the computerreadable program code may be stored in a memory external to, or remotefrom, the apparatus 100. The memory may include magnetic media,semiconductor media, optical media, or any media which is readable andexecutable by a computer. Computing apparatus 100 may also include acomputer processor 104 for executing the computer readable program codestored on the at least one computer readable medium 102. In at least oneaspect, computing apparatus 100 may include one or more input or outputdevices, generally referred to as a user interface 106 which may operateto allow input to the computing apparatus 100 or to provide output fromthe computing apparatus 100, respectively. In at least one embodiment,the memory may include one or more databases 130 as described in detailbelow.

FIGS. 2 through 5 illustrate an exemplary method for creating descriptorsets for identifying information flows in multiple interacting dynamicnetwork systems according to the disclosed embodiments. The computerprocessor 104 and the memory 102 including the computer readable programcode are configured to cause the computing apparatus 100 to at leastperform the methods for creating the descriptor sets disclosed herein.

Referring to FIGS. 2 and 3, the first step of the method for creatingthe descriptor sets of the disclosed embodiments is the selection of adynamic network system of interest, referred to as the primary networksystem 200. The primary network system 200 may be selected from anysuitable network system including, without limitation, the internet,social networks, ecologic networks, biologic networks, biologiccommunication networks, epidemiologic networks, protein networks, supplynetworks, demand networks, shopping networks, electricity networks,power transmission networks, manufacturing networks, traffic networks,communication networks, wireless networks, financial networks, nutrientnetworks cellular networks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, genenetworks, physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellularcommunication networks, cell signaling networks, intracellularcommunication networks, neuronal networks, disease networks, organellenetworks, bacterial networks, viral networks, health care networks,security networks, criminal networks.

The next step is the selection of characteristic features that identifynetwork nodes 205 of the primary network system 200 that create thenetwork connectivity that mediates the transfer of information orotherwise provide interaction between the selected primary networksystem 200 and secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n). The selectedcharacteristic features may be referred to as the first selectedcharacteristic features.

The first selected characteristic features may be selected from anysuitable primary network node features including, without limitation,proper names, synonyms or symbols of network nodes of interactionnetwork systems, measurements associated with network nodes ofinteraction network systems, a plurality of measurements associated withnetwork nodes of interaction network systems, proper names and synonymsof groups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols of networknodes of interaction network systems, and symbols of groups of networknodes of interaction network systems.

The next step of the method for creating the descriptor sets accordingto the disclosed embodiments includes the identification of at least one210 ₁ secondary network system, and for some implementations, aplurality of secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n) that are capableof interacting with or exchanging information with the network nodes 205of the primary network system 200.

The identification of the one or more secondary network systems 210₁-210 _(n) includes a first process of randomly selecting characteristicfeatures of network nodes of randomly selected interaction networksstored in a database. The randomly selected characteristic features ofnetwork nodes of randomly selected interaction networks may be referredto as the second selected characteristic features.

The identification of the one or more secondary network systems 210₁-210 _(n) also includes a second process of using the first selectedcharacteristic features mentioned above, and the second selectedcharacteristic features for determining coincidence frequencies orcoincident measurements of the first selected characteristic featureswith the second selected characteristic features in a database andrecording the results. Coincidence frequencies may generally refer to anumber of occurrences where the characteristic features are found inboth network nodes, and coincidence measurements may refer to amounts ofone or more characteristic features that may coincide between networknodes.

The identification of one or more secondary network systems 210 ₁-210_(n) also includes a third process of using the recorded coincidencefrequency or coincidence measurement results for selecting one or moresecondary network systems 210 ₂-210 _(n) possessing at least one networknode capable of interacting with or exchanging information with saidprimary network system 200.

The secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n) may be selected from anysuitable network system including, without limitation, the internet,social networks, ecologic networks, biologic networks, nutrientnetworks, biologic communication networks, epidemiologic networks,protein networks, supply networks, demand networks, shopping networks,electricity networks, power transmission networks, manufacturingnetworks, traffic networks, communication networks, wireless networks,financial networks, protein networks, cellular networks, cellularpathways, metabolic networks, gene networks, physiologic networks, organsystem networks, cellular communication networks, cell signalingnetworks, intracellular communication networks, neuronal networks,disease networks, organelle networks, bacterial networks, viralnetworks, health care networks, security networks, criminal networks,military networks, immunologic networks, intelligence networks.

The database 130 may include one or more of any suitable databases, andmay be selected, without limitation, from one or more of the Medlinedatabase, PubMed databases, EMBL databases, World Traditional MedicinePatent Database, Chinese Traditional Medicine Database, complementaryand alternative medicine databases, Wikipedia, collections of digitizedpublications, measurements collected by surveillance systems,measurements collected by bio-surveillance systems, measurementscollected by diagnostic systems, measurements collected by wearabledevices, measurements collected by wearable electronic systems,measurements collected by wearable sensors, measurements collected bywearable diagnostic systems, measurements collected through crowdsourcing, medical record databases, adverse event reporting systemdatabases, DHARA databases, and Ayurveda health care system databases.

The next step of the method according to the disclosed embodimentsincludes subdividing the primary network system 200 into smallersubnetwork systems 215. This subdivision is based on the identificationof the network nodes 205 in the primary network system 200 that mediatethe transfer of information, or otherwise provide interaction betweenthe primary network system 200 and network nodes 220 constructing thesecondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n). This subdivision of theprimary network system 200 into smaller subnetwork systems 215 isaccomplished by selecting characteristic features of the network nodes205 constructing the primary network system 200 and selectingcharacteristic features of the network nodes 220 constructing thesecondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n) and subsequently usingcharacteristic features of the selected primary network nodes 205 andsecondary network nodes 220 for determining coincident measurements orco-occurrence frequency measurements characterizing or indicatinginteractions or information exchanges between the selected primarynetwork nodes 205 and secondary network nodes 220 in the one or moredatabases 130 mentioned above and recording the results.

The subdividing step, using coincident measurements or co-occurrencefrequency measurements, identifies subnetwork systems 215 of the primarynetwork system 200 that are capable of interacting with or exchanginginformation with one or more network nodes 220 of the selected secondarynetwork systems 210 ₁-210 _(n). This step may be iterated using aplurality of secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n) to effect thesubdivision of the primary network system 200 into the subnetworksystems 215, wherein each subnetwork system 215 includes a finite numberof primary network nodes 205 capable of interacting with network nodes220 of the selected secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n). Eachsubnetwork system 215 of the primary network system 200 has a specificnumber of network nodes 205, and that number may be referred to as theprimary subnetwork node count 225, and these network nodes 205 determinethe dynamic topologies of the respective subnetworks 215 that mediatethe transfer of information from the primary network 200 to the selectedsecondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n).

Referring to FIG. 3, another step in the creation of the new descriptorsets according to the disclosed embodiments includes in a firstselection, the identification of objects 300 that are capable ofinteracting directly or indirectly or of exchanging information directlyor indirectly with network nodes 205 of the primary network system 200.This identification starts out by selecting characteristic features ofthe objects 300 followed by the determination of co-occurrencefrequencies or coincident measurements between the selectedcharacteristic features of the objects and characteristic features ofthe network nodes 205 constructing the primary network system 200 in theone or more databases 130. It should be understood that the term objectmay include one or more biological active agents, contagions, persons,or any other item that may interact with one or more network nodes.

Suitable methods for obtaining these co-occurrence frequencies orcoincident measurements include the use of text or data mining tools fordetermining the number of instances where selected characteristicsfeatures of objects co-occur with selected characteristic features ofthe network-nodes 205 of the primary network system 200 found in the oneor more of the databases 130 and recording the results. Coincidencemeasurements may also be obtained by using crowd sourcing fordetermining coincidence frequency measurements between selectedcharacteristic features of objects and selected characteristic featuresof network nodes 205 of the primary network system 200 and recording theresults. Recording of measurements produced by electronic devices mayalso be used for determining coincidence frequency or coincidencemeasurements between selected characteristic features of objects andselected characteristic features of network nodes 205 of the primarynetwork system 200. Likewise, experiments measuring direct or indirecteffects of objects on properties of the network nodes 205 of the primarynetwork system 200 may also be used for determining for determiningcoincidence frequency or coincidence measurements between selectedcharacteristic features of objects and selected characteristic featuresof network nodes 205 of the primary network system 200. Saidmeasurements are termed object associated coincidence frequency orcoincidence measurements for network nodes 205 of the primary networksystem 200. Said object associated coincidence frequency or coincidencemeasurements for network nodes 205 of the primary network system 200 areused for selecting subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200 containingsubnetwork nodes capable of interacting with selected objects. Likewisesaid object associated coincidence frequency or coincidence measurementsfor network nodes 205 of the primary network system are used forselecting objects capable of interacting with subnetwork nodes 215 ofthe primary network 200.

Method 1

It is well understood to someone skilled in the art that identificationand recording of ontologies identifying subnetwork nodes 215 of primarynetworks 200 has utility in data mining. The capacity of objects toaffect information transfer between the selected primary network system200 and a selected secondary network systems 210 ₁-210 _(n) may then bedetermined in a first process using a text or data mining tool andselecting ontologies of subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200 andby selecting ontologies of objects capable of interacting with said subnetwork nodes 215 for determining the coincidence frequency orcoincidence measurements between instances in said subnetworksontologies and instances in said object ontologies in said database andrecording the result for said cooccurrence frequency or coincidencemeasurements.

In a second process a threshold for said co-occurrence frequency orcoincidence measurements is selected and this threshold is used fordetermining the number of subnetwork nodes in subnetworks 215 of theprimary network 200 which have cooccurrence frequencies or coincidencemeasurements above said selected threshold and recording the result.Said results termed object reachable subnetwork node counts 235 ofsubnetworks 215 of primary network 200. Said object reachable subnetworknode counts 235 are also termed edge density measurements 245 for saidobject and said subnetworks 215 of said primary network 200. Said edgedensity measurements 245 for said objects and a plurality of selectedsubnetworks 215 of said primary network 200 are recorded in a database.Said recordings are termed edge density based object descriptors. Saidedge density based object descriptors have no units of measurements orscale and provide estimates for the capacity of objects, biologicalactive agents, contagions, persons to affect the transfer of informationbetween selected primary networks and a selected plurality ofinteracting secondary network systems. Said edge density based objectdescriptor sets are useful for determining similarities between selectedobjects and for comparing information flows between objects in aplurality of interacting network systems.

A further aspect of this invention is the normalization of said edgedensity based object descriptor sets by determining the ratio betweensaid edge density measurements 245 and said subnetwork node counts 225for said subnetworks 215 of said primary network 200. Said ratiodetermination includes a step wherein an instance of an objectassociated edge density measurements 245 is selected as the numeratorand an instance of a subnetwork node count 225 of subnetworks 215 of theprimary network 200 is selected as the denominator followed by thecalculation and recording of the resulting node count ratios. In analternative embodiment said ratio determination includes a step whereinan instance of an object associated edge density measurements 245 isselected as the denominator and an instance of a subnetwork node count225 of subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200 is selected as thenumerator followed by the calculation and recording of the resultingnode count ratios.

Said node count ratios for selected subnetworks 215 are aggregated andused as estimates of the capacity of objects, biological active agents,and contagions, or persons to affect information transfer betweenselected subnetworks 215 of the selected primary network system 200 anda selected secondary network system 210 ₁-210 _(n). For constructingedge density based descriptor for selected objects said node countratios of objects for subnetworks 215 are aggregated and recorded in adatabase. Said edge density based descriptors are used to compare thecapacity of objects, biological active agents, contagions, persons toaffect the transfer of information in a plurality of interacting networksystems. Moreover, using the new descriptor set of the disclosedembodiments in hierarchical cluster analysis identifies not only therouting of Information flows induced by “objects or persons” through aplurality of interacting networks but also identifies groups of objects,biological active agents, contagions or persons that induce similarrouting of information flows in a plurality of dynamic interactingnetwork systems. Obtaining this information is useful for forecastingresponses elicited by objects, biological active agents, contagions orpersons in biological systems and dynamic interaction systems.

Method 2

A second embodiment of this invention discloses the creation of secondmethod for creating a second set of new descriptor sets which inincludes in a first step the identification of objects, biologicalactive agents, contagions or persons that are capable of interactingdirectly or indirectly or of exchanging information directly orindirectly with network nodes of the primary network system. Thisidentification starts out by selecting characteristic features ofobjects, biological active agents, contagions or persons followed by thedetermination of co-occurrence frequencies or coincident measurementsbetween the selected characteristic features of objects, biologicalactive agents, contagions or persons and characteristic features ofnetwork nodes constructing the primary network system in the one or moredatabases 130 and recording the results.

Suitable methods for obtaining these co-occurrence frequencies orcoincident measurements include the use of text mining tools fordetermining the number of instances where selected characteristicsfeatures of objects, biological active agents, contagions or personsco-occur with selected characteristic features of the network-nodes 205of the primary network system 200 found in the one or more of thedatabases 130 and recording the results. Coincidence measurements mayalso be obtained by using crowd sourcing for determining coincidencefrequency measurements between selected characteristic features ofobjects and selected characteristic features of network nodes 205 of theprimary network system 200 and recording the results.

Measurements produced by electronic devices determining similarcorrelations, or experiments measuring direct or indirect effects ofobjects, biological active agents, contagions or persons on propertiesof the network nodes 205 of the primary network system 200 and recordingthe results may also be used.

Once these co-occurrence frequency or coincident measurements areobtained, the number of network nodes may be identified and counted ineach of the respective subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200 thatare capable of interacting or exchanging information with the selectedobjects, biological active agents, contagions or persons. The nodecounts may be referred to as focused subnetwork node counts 235. In thesecond method for creating a second set of new descriptor sets forobjects or persons, the co-occurrence frequency or coincidentmeasurements of objects or persons associated with respective subnetworknode of subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200 are added up andrecorded wherein these records identify the sum of cooccurrencefrequency measurements for said objects or persons obtained for eachsubnetworks node of subnetworks 215 of the primary network 200. Said sumof cooccurrence frequency measurements of said objects or persons forsaid subnetwork node counts 235 of the primary network 200 are referredto as information density measurements of said objects or persons forsubnetworks 215 of the primary network 200. Said information densitymeasurements of said objects or persons for subnetworks 215 of theprimary network 200 provide estimates of the capacity of objects orpersons to affect information transfer between subnetworks 215 of theselected primary network system 200 and the selected secondary networksystems 210 ₁-210 _(n). These information density determinations have nounits of measurements or scale, therefore the information densitydeterminations of objects, biological active agents, contagions, personsobtained for subnetworks 215 of the primary network system 200 may becollected and used, in aggregate, as second new descriptor sets forobjects, biological active agents, contagions, persons for tracking thetransfer of information induced by these objects, biological activeagents, contagions, persons in a plurality of interacting networksystems. Moreover, using the second new descriptor set of the disclosedembodiments in hierarchical cluster analysis identifies groups ofobjects, biological active agents, contagions or persons that inducesimilar routing of information flows in a plurality of interactingnetwork systems and groups of network topologies regulating similarinformation flows.

Obtaining this information is useful for forecasting responses elicitedby objects, biological active agents, contagions or persons inbiological systems.

As an alternate description of the disclosed embodiments, a first methodfor producing novel descriptors of objects or persons includes:

a first step comprising a means for selecting a first set ofcharacteristic features of network-nodes of a first interaction networksystem of interest further comprising the use of said selectedcharacteristic features of said network nodes of said first selectedinteraction network system for creating a first descriptor set of saidfirst interaction network system.

The characteristic features may be selected from the group comprisingproper names, synonyms or symbols of network nodes of interactionnetwork systems, measurements associated with network nodes ofinteraction network systems, a plurality of measurements associated withnetwork nodes of interaction network systems, proper names and synonymsof groups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols of networknodes of interaction network systems, symbols of groups of network nodesof interaction network systems

The interaction network systems may be selected from the groupcomprising the internet, social networks, ecologic networks, biologicnetworks, epidemiologic networks, supply networks, demand networks,shopping networks, electricity networks, power transmission networks,manufacturing networks, traffic networks, communication networks,wireless networks, financial networks, protein networks, cellularnetworks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks,physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellular communicationnetworks, cell signaling networks, intracellular communication networks,neuronal networks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterialnetworks, viral networks, health care networks, security networks,criminal networks

The method may include a second step comprising a second means usingsaid first descriptor set of said first network system for selecting asecond, third, fourth . . . nth interaction network system interactingdirectly or indirectly or exchanging information directly or indirectlywith said first interaction network system.

The second means may comprise a first process for randomly selectingcharacteristic features of network-nodes of randomly selectedinteraction networks in a databases, a second process using said firstdescriptor set of said first network system and said randomly selectedcharacteristic features of network nodes of said randomly selectedinteraction network system for determining coincidence frequencies orcoincident measurements of said first descriptor set with said randomlyselected characteristic features of network nodes of said randomlyselected interaction networks in said database and recording the resultsfurther comprising a third process using said recorded results forselecting a second, third, fourth . . . nth interaction network systempossessing at least one network node capable of interacting with orexchanging information with said first selected interaction networksystem.

The database may be selected from the group comprising the Medlinedatabase, PubMed databases, EMBL databases, World Traditional MedicinePatent Database, Chinese Traditional Medicine Database, complementaryand alternative medicine database, Wikipedia, collections of digitizedpublications, measurements collected by surveillance systems,measurements collected by bio surveillance systems, measurementscollected by diagnostic systems, measurements collected by wearabledevices, measurements collected by wearable electronic systems,measurements collected by wearable sensors, measurements collected bywearable diagnostic systems, measurements collected through crowdsourcing, medical record database, adverse event reporting systemdatabase, DHARA database, Ayurveda health care system databases.

The second process for determining coincidence frequencies or coincidentmeasurements comprises the selection of an instance of a firstdescriptor set and the selection of an instance of a second descriptorset and the selection of a database and the use of a text mining meansfor determining how often an instance of a first descriptor setco-occurs with an instance of a second descriptor set in said databaseand recording the results; likewise determination of coincidencemeasurements comprises the selection of an instance of a firstdescriptor set and the selection of an instance of a second descriptorset and the selection of a data bases and the use of a means foridentifying measurements relating an instance of a first descriptor setand an instance of a second descriptor set in said database andrecording the results.

The method may further include a third step comprising a third methodfor selecting a second, third, fourth . . . nth set of characteristicfeatures of network-nodes of said second, third, fourth, nth interactionnetwork system further comprising the use of said second, third, fourth. . . nth set of characteristic features of said network nodes of saidsecond, third, fourth, . . . nth interaction network system for creatinga second, third, fourth . . . nth descriptor set of said second, third,fourth . . . nth interaction network system selected in said secondstep.

The method may include a fourth step comprising a fourth method usingsaid first descriptor set of said first interaction network system andusing said second, third, fourth . . . nth descriptor set of saidsecond, third, fourth . . . nth interaction network system and saidsecond process of said second step and said databases for selectingsubsets of descriptor sets of said first interaction network systemsdescribing subsets of network nodes of said first interaction networksystem interacting directly or indirectly or exchanging informationdirectly or indirectly with network nodes of said second, third, fourth. . . nth interaction network system.

The method may further include a fourth process for determining thenumber of network nodes in said first, second, third, fourth subnetworksystem of said first interaction network systems and recording theresults wherein said results may be termed first, second, third, fourth. . . nth subnetwork-node counts of said subnetwork system of said firstinteraction network system are further termed SN1-nCN1

The method may further include a fifth step comprising of a fifth methodfor selecting a finite set of objects termed O1-m interacting directlyor indirectly or exchanging information directly or indirectly with saidfirst interaction network system, wherein said fifth method comprises afifth process using said first descriptor set of said first interactionnetwork system and using randomly selected characteristic features ofrandomly selected objects and said second process of said second stepand said databases for determining coincidence frequencies or coincidentmeasurements of said first descriptor set with said randomly selectedcharacteristic features of said randomly selected objects in saiddatabases.

The method may further include the selection of coincidence frequencymeasurements or a coincident measurement threshold and using saidthreshold for selecting incidences of said coincidence frequencymeasurements or said coincident measurements for said descriptor sets insaid databases and recording the results.

The method may also comprise using said selected coincidence frequencymeasurements or coincident measurements for selecting objects capable ofinteracting or exchanging information with at least one or a pluralityof network nodes of said first selected interaction network system andrecording said selected objects in a database.

The objects may be selected from the group comprising members of socialnetworks, members of financial networks, members of ecologic networks,prescription medicines, over the counter drugs, medicinal herbs, naturalproducts, Ayurvedic medicines, Chinese traditional medicines, Naturalmedicines, bacteria, algae, Organic and inorganic chemical compositions,Foods, nutrients, vitamins, microorganisms, viruses, supplements,vitamins, mobile devices, patients, clients, communities, members ofcommunities, financial instruments, bonds, companies, members ofphysiologic networks, members of organ system networks, members ofcellular networks members of tissue networks

The method may further include a sixth step comprising the selection ofa first set of characteristic features of said selected objects and theuse of said characteristic features of said selected objects as firstintermittent descriptor set of said selected objects.

The first set of characteristic features of said objects may be selectedfrom the group comprising proper names and synonyms of objects, symbolsfor objects, collection of physical properties of objects, collectionsof measurements associated with objects, unique identifiers of objectsin a database

The method may further include a seventh step comprising a sixth methodusing said first intermittent descriptor set of said objects and usingsaid first, second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork descriptor setsof said first selected interaction network system and using said secondprocess of said second step and using said databases for identifyingobjects capable of interacting directly or indirectly or of exchanginginformation directly or indirectly with at least one network node ofsaid first, second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork system of saidfirst network system and recording the results.

The sixth method may comprise a process using said first set ofintermittent object descriptors and said first, second, third, fourth .. . nth set of subnetwork descriptors of said first, second, third,fourth . . . nth subnetwork of said first selected interaction networksystem and said second process of said second step and said databasesfor determining coincidence frequencies or coincident measurements ofsaid first set of intermittent object descriptors and said first,second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork descriptors of saidsubnetwork systems of said first selected interaction network system insaid database and recording the results.

The method may further comprise the selection of a threshold of saidcoincidence frequency measurements or coincident measurements forselecting at least one or a plurality of network nodes in said first,second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork system of said firstinteraction network system capable of interacting or exchanginginformation with said objects. The method may further include a tenthprocess for counting the number of said selected network nodes for saidsubnetwork systems and said objects and recording the results whereinsaid results are termed first, second, third, fourth . . . nthobject-subnetwork-interaction node counts hereinafter further termedO1-n SN1-n ICN1.

The method may further comprise an eight step including a seventh methodusing said object-subnetwork-interaction node counts termed O1-n SN1-nICN1 of said objects as numerators and using said subnetwork-node countstermed SN1-nCN1 of said subnetworks of said first interaction networksystem as denominator for determining the ratio between said subnetworknode counts and recording the result for said objects O1-m and saidsubnetwork system SN11-n wherein said results, termed normalized first,second, third, fourth object subnetwork-interaction interference scores,are further termed O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1.

The method may further include a ninth step comprising the recording ofsaid normalized object-subnetwork interaction interference scoresO1-mSN1-n IFSCN1 for said subnetwork systems as descriptors of saidobjects in a database.

The method may further include a tenth step comprising an eighth methodusing said object-subnetwork interaction interference scores O1-mSN1-nIFSCN1 and an eleventh process for determining similarities between saidobject-subnetwork interaction interference scores of said objects anddisplaying the results.

The eleventh process may be selected from the group comprisinghierarchical cluster analysis, principal component analysis, vectormachines, k means analysis, profile similarity analysis.

In accordance with the alternate description of the disclosedembodiments, the method for producing novel descriptors of objects orpersons may include objects selected from the group comprising membersof social networks, members of financial networks, members of ecologicnetworks, prescription medicines, over the counter drugs, medicinalherbs, natural products, Ayurvedic medicines, Chinese traditionalmedicines, Natural medicines, bacteria, algae, Organic and inorganicchemical compositions, Foods, nutrients, vitamins, microorganisms,viruses, supplements, vitamins, mobile devices, patients, clients,communities, members of communities, financial instruments, bonds,companies, members of physiologic networks, members of organ systemnetworks, members of cellular networks members of tissue networks.

The descriptors may be used for determining similarities betweeninformation flows induced by said objects or persons in interactionnetworks wherein said interaction networks are selected from the groupcomprising the internet, social networks, ecologic networks, biologicnetworks, epidemiologic networks, supply networks, demand networks,shopping networks, electricity networks, power transmission networks,manufacturing networks, traffic networks, communication networks,wireless networks, financial networks, protein networks, cellularnetworks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks,physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellular communicationnetworks, cell signaling networks, intracellular communication networks,neuronal networks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterialnetworks, viral networks, health care networks, security networks,criminal networks.

likewise, The object descriptors may be used for determiningsimilarities between objects and persons

The network systems may be selected from the group comprisingepidemiologic networks, biologic communication networks, proteinnetworks, cellular networks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, genenetworks, physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellularcommunication networks, cell signaling networks, intracellularcommunication networks, neuronal networks, disease networks, organellenetworks, bacterial networks, viral networks.

The objects may be selected from the group comprising prescriptionmedicines, traditional medicines, medicinal herbs, foods, naturalproducts, experimental medicines, Ayurvedic medicines, microorganisms,infectious agents.

The coincidence measurements may be selected from the group comprisingmeasurements produced by wearable devices

Various modifications and adaptations may become apparent to thoseskilled in the relevant arts in view of the foregoing description, whenread in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, all suchand similar modifications of the teachings of the disclosed embodimentswill still fall within the scope of the disclosed embodiments.

Furthermore, some of the features of the exemplary embodiments could beused to advantage without the corresponding use of other features. Assuch, the foregoing description should be considered as merelyillustrative of the principles of the disclosed embodiments and not inlimitation thereof.

While aspects and variations of the disclosed embodiments have beendescribed herein, it should be understood by those skilled in the artthat various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted forelements thereof without departing from the scope of the disclosedembodiments. Furthermore, the skilled artisan will recognize theinterchangeability of various aspects and features from differentembodiments. Similarly, the various method steps and features described,as well as other known equivalents for each such methods and feature,can be mixed and matched by one of ordinary skill in the art toconstruct additional assemblies and techniques in accordance withprinciples of this disclosure. In addition, many modifications may bemade to adapt a particular situation or material to the teachings of thedisclosed embodiments without departing from the essential scopethereof. Therefore, it is intended that the disclosed embodiments not belimited to any particular embodiment disclosed as the best modecontemplated for implementing the disclosed structures and techniques,but that the disclosed embodiments will include all features describedherein.

The following experiments provide examples of practical applications ofthe embodiments described herein. Sample portions of the Examplesreferenced herein are shown below the experiments.

Experiment 1 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 1456 Disease TermDerived Protein Sub Networks

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example A1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2. Accordingly, the names of 2211 diseases(identifying network nodes in the secondary network) and 14000 genesymbols (identifying 14000 protein network nodes of the primary network)were used for identifying co-occurrence frequencies of instances ofdisease names and instances of gene symbols in a 2015 version of theMedline databases containing approximately 24 million records of Medlineabstracts. The text mining tool used for determining these co-occurrencefrequencies was licensed from the university of Connecticut. Theresulting co-occurrence frequencies were recorded and a co-occurrencefrequency threshold of 5 was selected for the partitioning of networknodes constituting the primary network into protein subnetworks.Selection of a co-occurrence frequency threshold allows to control thenumber of networks nodes in subnetworks. Regarding data miningapplications, sub-networks containing on average less than 100 networknodes and at least 5 network nodes are preferred for constructinginformation density based descriptor sets. In this experiment, 1456protein subnetworks were selected by identifying gene symbols that havemore than 5 co-occurring instances with a selected disease term in theMedline database and providing subnetworks with at least two networknodes (example A1). As quality control, protein-subnetwork topologieswere examined using the STRING database (STRING v10: Nucleic Acids Res.2015 January; 43: D447-52). If desired, this quality control step mayalso be used to reduce the number of text mining derived network nodesin protein subnetworks by selecting subnetwork nodes identified in thepreceding co-occurrence frequency analysis which achieve the highestconfidence level of protein-protein interaction scores in independentprotein interaction databases (for example in String v 10 this score is0.9).

Method for Creating Object Descriptors Using 1456 Information DensityMeasurement for 6637 Prescription Drugs, Herbs and Natural Medicines andOntology for 1456 Disease Term Derived Protein Sub Networks (Example A)

The Names and synonyms associated with 6637 prescription drugs, herbsand selected traditional medicines (herein termed objects) and residingin a database stored on a computer were used for determining informationdensity descriptors for the 6637 objects using method 2 and theontologies identifying the sub-network nodes of 1456 protein subnetworks shown in example A1. Again, a 2015 version of approximately 24million Medline abstracts residing on the same computer and a textmining algorithm licensed from the university of Connecticut was usedfor determining the information density for each drug, herb andtraditional medicine for each of the 1456 protein subnetwork per method2. The resulting information densities were recorded in a database (seeexample A2).

Method for Determining Similarities Between Object Descriptors

The information densities measurements of these 6637 objects for these1456 protein subnetworks and obtained in the previous step (see exampleA2) were used as object descriptors in UPGMA hierarchical clusteranalysis employing as similarity measure cosine correlation and usingthe “Spotfire software” for data analysis and data visualization. Theresulting similarity matrix identifies the overlap between the 1456protein subnetworks using as ordering principle similarities betweeninformation density measurements for these 6637 objects in 1456 diseasebased protein-subnetworks. The construction of this similarity matrixidentifies information flows induced by biologically active agents inthese 1456 protein subnetwork and hence pharmacologic equivalenciesbetween agents. For example, inspecting pharmacology similarities ofMonascus purpureus indicates that the rice fermentation product“Monascus purpureus” shares high information density based descriptorsimilarities with a group of lipid lowering agents consisting ofBezafibrate, Ezetimibe, Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacin and Vytorin (adrug combination of Ezetimibe and simvastatin). This grouping of lipidlowering agents shares descriptor similarities within a confidence incluster similarity value of 0.965 wherein 1 would be the highestsimilarity value and zero the lowest.

At first this result may seem surprising since lovastatin, which hasbeen isolated from Monascus purpureus (Thai Journal of PharmaceuticalSciences 33(1):39-46⋅January 2009), shares high information flowsimilarities with cerivastatin and mevastatin and to a lesser extendwith Monascus purpureus. However, the clustering of the new descriptorsusing information densities for 1459 disease network as objectdescriptors indicates that Monascus purpureus has an overallpharmacology profile that differs from that of pure lovastatin. Thisobservation indicates that additional biological active principleconstituting this natural medicines contribute to its lipid loweringpharmacology profile. That this observation is indeed correct has beenpublished elsewhere (J. Agric. Food Chem., 2010, 58 (24), pp12703-12709). For ascertaining the robustness of results obtainedthrough the clustering of the new descriptor sets, the experiment wasrepeated using two additional information density based objectdescriptor sets. The first repeat experiments (experiment 2) usedinformation density measurements as object descriptors derived from 975MedDRA protein sub networks and the second repeat experiments(experiment 3) used 441 information density measurements derived from441 physiology based protein subnetworks as object descriptors. Inaddition, these three experiment were repeated by adding objects toanalyses (1-3).

Experiment 2 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 975 MedDRA TermDerived Protein Sub Networks

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example B1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2 and described in experiment 1. Accordingly, thenames of 2285 MedDRA terms (identifying network nodes in the secondarynetwork) and 14000 gene symbols (identifying 14000 protein network nodesof the primary network) were used for identifying co-occurrencefrequencies of instances of MedDRA terms and instances of gene symbolsin a 2015 version of the Medline databases containing approximately 24million records of Medline abstracts. The text mining tool used fordetermining these cooccurrence frequencies was licensed from theuniversity of Connecticut. The resulting cooccurrence frequencies wererecorded and a co-occurrence frequency threshold of 5 was selected forthe partitioning of network nodes constituting the primary network into975 protein subnetworks. Accordingly, 975 protein subnetworks wereobtained containing gene symbols that have more than 5 co-occurringinstances with a selected MedDRA term in the Medline database. Asquality a control these obtained subnetworks were checked using theSTRING database (STRING v10: Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 January;43:D447-52). This quality control step also allows to prune the numberof network nodes by selecting subnetwork nodes obtained throughco-occurrence frequency analysis having protein-protein interactionscores with the highest confidence level (0.9).

Method for Creating Object Descriptors Using 975 Information DensityMeasurement for 6943 Prescription Drugs, Herbs and Natural Medicines andOntology for 975 MedDRA Term Derived Protein Sub Networks (Example B)

The Names and synonyms associated with 6943 prescription drugs, herbsand selected traditional medicines (herein termed objects) and residingin a database stored on a computer were used for determining informationdensity descriptors for the 6943 objects using method 2 and theontologies identifying the sub-network nodes of 975 protein sub networksshown in example B1. Again, a 2015 version of approximately 24 millionMedline abstracts residing on the same computer and a text miningalgorithm licensed from the university of Connecticut was used fordetermining the information density for each drug, herb and traditionalmedicine for each of the 975 protein-subnetwork per method 2. Theresulting information densities were recorded in a database (see exampleB2).

Method for Determining Similarities Between Object Descriptors

The information densities measurements of these 6943 objects for these975 protein subnetworks and obtained in the previous step (example B2)were used as object descriptors in UPGMA hierarchical cluster analysisemploying as similarity measure cosine correlation and using the“Spotfire software” for data analysis and data visualization. Theresulting similarity matrix identifies the overlap between the 975protein subnetworks using as ordering principle similarities betweeninformation density measurements for these 6943 objects in 975 MedDRAbased protein-subnetworks. The construction of this similarity matrixidentifies information flows induced by biologically active agents inthese 975-protein subnetwork and hence pharmacologic equivalenciesbetween agents. Again, identifying biological active substances sharingMedDRA information density descriptor similarity with Monascus purpureusindicates that this rice fermentation product shares high descriptorsimilarities with a group of lipid lowering agents consisting ofBezafibrate, Ezetimibe, Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacin and Vytorin (adrug combination of Ezetimibe and simvastatin). This grouping of lipidlowering agents shares descriptor similarities within a confidence incluster similarity value of 0.973 wherein 1 would be the highestsimilarity value and zero the lowest.

Experiment 3 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 441 PhysiologyTerm Derived Protein Sub Networks Example C

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example C1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2 and described in experiment 1. Accordingly, thenames of 728 Physiology terms (identifying network nodes in thesecondary network) and 5400 gene symbols (identifying 5400 proteinnetwork nodes of the primary network most often investigated in theMedline database) were used for identifying co-occurrence frequencies ofinstances of Physiology terms and instances of gene symbols in a 2015version of the Medline databases containing approximately 24 millionrecords of Medline abstracts. The text mining tool used for determiningthese cooccurrence frequencies was licensed from the university ofConnecticut. The resulting cooccurrence frequencies were recorded and aco-occurrence frequency threshold of 5 was selected for the partitioningof network nodes constituting the primary network into 441 proteinsubnetworks. Accordingly, these 441 protein subnetworks contain genesymbols that have more than 5 co-occurring instances with a selectedphysiology terms in the Medline database. As quality a control theseobtained subnetworks were checked using the STRING database (STRING v10:Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 January; 43:D447-52). This quality control stepalso allows to prune the number of network nodes by selecting subnetworknodes obtained through co-occurrence frequency analysis havingprotein-protein interaction scores with the highest confidence level(0.9).

Method for Creating Object Descriptors Using 441 Information DensityMeasurement for 3431 Prescription Drugs, Herbs and Natural Medicines andOntology for 441 Physiology Term Derived Protein Sub Networks (ExampleC)

The Names and synonyms associated with 7420 prescription drugs, herbsand selected traditional medicines (herein termed objects) and residingin a database stored on a computer were used for determining informationdensity descriptors for the 7420 objects using method 2 and theontologies for 441 physiology term derived protein subnetworks (exampleC1). Again, a 2015 version of approximately 24 million Medline abstractsresiding on the same computer and a text mining algorithm licensed fromthe university of Connecticut was used for determining the informationdensity for each drug, herb and traditional medicine for each of the 441protein-subnetworks per method 2. The resulting information densitieswere recorded in a database. Selecting an information density thresholdof 5 provided information density descriptors for 3431 objects eachdescriptor consisting of 441 information density measurements (seeexample C2).

Method for Determining Similarities Between Object Descriptors

The information densities measurements for these 3431 objects (exampleC2) were used as object descriptors in UPGMA hierarchical clusteranalysis employing as similarity measure cosine correlation and usingthe “Spotfire software” for data analysis and data visualization. Theresulting similarity matrix identifies the overlap between the 441protein subnetworks using as ordering principle similarities betweeninformation density measurements for these 3431 objects in 441physiology term derived protein-subnetworks. The construction of thissimilarity matrix identifies information flows induced by biologicallyactive agents in these 441-protein subnetwork and hence pharmacologicequivalencies between agents. Again, identifying biological activesubstances sharing information density descriptor similarity withMonascus purpureus indicates that this rice fermentation product shareshigh descriptor similarities with a group of lipid lowering agents againconsisting of Bezafibrate, Ezetimibe, Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacinand Vytorin (a drug combination of Ezetimibe and simvastatin). Thisgrouping of lipid lowering agents shares descriptor similarities withina confidence in cluster similarity value of 0.977 wherein 1 would be thehighest similarity value and zero the lowest.

Experiment 4

the fourth experiment involved addition of 695 objects and pertinentdisease protein sub network based information density descriptors to theanalysis described in experiment 1. Clustering of this expandeddescriptor set and identification of objects residing in the groupcontaining the rice fermentation product Monascus purpureus (confidencein cluster similarity value 0.97) revealed that this grouping identifiedin the third experiment contains the same group of lipid lowering agentsas identified in experiment 1 and 2 consisting of Bezafibrate,Ezetimibe, Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacin and Vytorin.

Experiment 5

The fifth experiment involved addition of 400 objects and pertinentmedDRA protein sub network based information density descriptors to theanalysis described in experiment 2. Clustering of these descriptors andidentification of objects residing in the group containing the ricefermentation product Monascus purpureus (confidence in clustersimilarity value 0.969) reveals that this group contains the same groupof lipid lowering agents as identified in experiment 1 and 2 namelyBezafibrate, Ezetimibe, Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacin and Vytorin.

Experiment 6

The sixth experiment involved addition of 3431 objects and asdescriptors the pertinent 441 information density measurements for 441physiology based protein sub networks to the analysis described inexperiment 3. Clustering of these 7420 descriptors and identification ofobjects residing in the group containing the rice fermentation productMonascus purpureus (confidence in cluster similarity value 0.983)reveals that this group contains the same group of lipid lowering agentsas identified in experiment 1 and 2 namely Bezafibrate, Ezetimibe,Fenofibrate, gemfibrozil, Niacin and Vytorin.

The Reproducibility of results produced by the clustering of informationdensity based object descriptors (experiments 1-6) shows that the noveldescriptor sets of this invention have utility for comparing biologicalactive principles with heterogeneous compositions. These comparisons arenot possible with object descriptors used in pharmaceutical drugdiscovery. Moreover, since the similarities obtained with the noveldescriptors are quantifiable, the descriptors of this invention haveutility in pharmacological, medical and health research and activitiesassociated with development of pertinent products.

Experiment 7 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 1652 PhysiologyTerm Derived Disease Sub Networks

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example D1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2. Accordingly, the names of 9350 diseases(identifying network nodes in the secondary network) and the names of728 physiological phenomena (identifying 728 network nodes of a tertiarynetwork) were used for identifying co-occurrence frequencies ofinstances of disease names and instances of the names of physiologicphenomena in a 2015 version of the Medline databases containingapproximately 24 million records of Medline abstracts. The text miningtool used for determining these cooccurrence frequencies was licensedfrom the university of Connecticut. The resulting cooccurrencefrequencies were recorded and a co-occurrence frequency threshold of 5was selected for the partitioning of network nodes constituting theprimary network into disease subnetworks. The number of network nodesfor the resulting disease subnetwork with cooccurrence frequencies abovethe selected threshold were counted and recorded. Regarding the miningof information associated with biologically active substances,ontologies for sub-networks containing on average less than 50 networknodes and at least 3 network nodes are preferred for constructinginformation density based object descriptor sets. Accordingly, theontologies for 1652 disease subnetworks were selected by identifying theterms of physiological phenomena that have more than 5 co-occurringinstances with a selected disease term in the Medline database andidentify the nodes in pertinent disease subnetworks that have at leastthree but less than 42 physiologic term based network nodes (exampleD1).

Method for Creating Object Descriptors Using 1652 Information DensityMeasurement for 8955 Prescription Drugs, Herbs and Natural MedicinesUsing the Ontology for 1652 Physiology Term Derived Disease Sub Networks(Example D)

The Names and synonyms associated with 12700 prescription drugs, herbsand selected traditional medicines (herein termed objects) and residingin a database stored on a computer were used for determining informationdensity descriptors for the 12700 objects using method 2 and theontologies identifying the sub-network nodes of 1652 disease subnetworks shown in example D1. Again, a 2015 version of approximately 24million Medline abstracts residing on the same computer and a textmining algorithm licensed from the university of Connecticut was usedfor determining the information density for each drug, herb andtraditional medicine for each of the 1652 disease subnetwork per method2. The resulting information densities were recorded in a database (seeexample D2).

Method for Determining Similarities Between Object Descriptors

The information densities measurements of these 8955 objects for these1652 disease subnetworks and obtained in the previous step (see exampleD2) were used as object descriptors in UPGMA hierarchical clusteranalysis employing as similarity measure cosine correlation and usingthe “Spotf ire software” for data analysis and data visualization. Theresulting similarity matrix identifies the overlap between the 1652disease subnetworks using as ordering principle similarities betweeninformation density measurements for these 8955 objects in 1652physiology term based disease-subnetworks. The construction of thissimilarity matrix identifies the information density of thesebiologically active agents in 1652 disease subnetwork. For example,inspecting the grouping of pharmacologically active gents residingwithin a confidence in cluster similarity value of 0.971 and containingthe rice fermentation product Monascus purpureus indicates that“Monascus purpureus” shares descriptor similarities with a group oflipid lowering agents including Bezafibrate, Ezetimibe, gemfibrozil,Niacin, Simvastatin, atorvastatin Fluvastatin, Pravastatin Rosuvastatinand allopurinol

Experiment 8 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 472 Anatomy TermDerived Physiologic Networks

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example E1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2. Accordingly, an anatomic ontology consisting of1159 MESH terms (identifying network nodes in the secondary network) andthe names of 728 physiological phenomena (identifying 728 network nodesof a tertiary network) were used for obtaining coincidence measurementsof instances of anatomic ontology terms and instances of the names ofphysiologic phenomena in a 2015 version of the Medline databasescontaining approximately 24 million records of Medline abstracts. Thetext mining tool used for determining coincidence measurements for allterms in both ontologies was licensed from the university ofConnecticut. The resulting coincidence measurements were recorded and acoincidence measurement threshold of 5 was selected for identifyinganatomic terms characterizing network nodes constituting physiologicsubnetworks. This coincidence measurements threshold was also used foridentifying and recording the number of network nodes in physiologicsubnetworks above this threshold. The recording of these subnetwork nodecounts was used for identifying 472 subnetworks containing between 3 and200 subnetwork nodes. Mesh terms characterizing these subnetwork nodeswere selected for constructing ontologies for 472 physiologicsubnetworks to be used in the construction of constructing descriptorsets per method 1 (2 node counts for these 472 sub networks are shown inexample E2).

Method for Creating Object Descriptors Using Edge Density Measurementfor 16 Objects Consisting of Herbs, Triclosan, and Nutrients Using theOntology for 472 Anatomy Term Derived Physiologic Networks (Example E1)

The ontology for 6 herbs, triclosan, and 10 nutrients (herein termedobjects) and residing in a database stored on a computer were used fordetermining edge density descriptors for the 16 objects using method 1and the ontologies characterizing the sub-network nodes of 472physiologic networks (shown in example E1). Again, a 2015 version ofapproximately 24 million Medline abstracts residing on the same computerand a text mining algorithm licensed from the university of Connecticutwas used for obtaining coincidence measurements for each instance of anobject and each instance of a subnetwork node constituting one of the472 physiologic networks and these results were recorded. A coincidencemeasurement threshold of 5 was selected and an instance of an object wasselected for counting the number of network nodes in each of the 472subnetworks with coincidence measurements above this threshold. Thisstep was repeated for all objects in the object ontology. For eachobject the number of network nodes in each of the 472 subnetworks withcoincidence measurements above this threshold were recorded. Theserecordings, termed edge density measurements for these 16 objects(example E3) are used as descriptor sets for these objects. Thesedescriptors can be subjected to further transformation by selecting theedge density measurements obtained for an instance of an object and aninstance of a subnetwork and selecting the measurement for thesubnetwork node count associated with the selected subnetwork andcalculating ratios between these measurements. An example of thistransformation is shown in example E4.

Method for Determining Similarities Between Object Descriptors

The edge densities measurements of these 16 objects for these 472physiologic subnetworks and obtained in the previous step (see exampleE3) were used as object descriptors in UPGMA hierarchical clusteranalysis employing as similarity measure cosine correlation and usingthe “Spotfire software” for data analysis and data visualization. Theresulting similarity matrix identifies the overlap between the 472physiology subnetworks using as ordering principle similarities betweenedge density measurements for these 16 objects in 472 anatomy term basedphysiology-subnetworks. The construction of this similarity matrixidentifies the edge density of these 16 biologically active agents in472 physiology subnetworks.

Experiment 9 Method for Creating the Node Ontology for 2420 MedDRA TermDerived Disease Sub Networks

Subnetwork ontologies shown in example F1 were derived using the secondprocess in method 2. Accordingly, the names of 9350 diseases(identifying network nodes in the secondary network) and the names andsynonyms of 2285 MedDRA terms diseases (identifying network nodes in thetertiary network) were used for identifying and recording co-incidentmeasurements of instances of disease names and instances of the namesand synonyms of MedDRA terms in a 2015 version of the Medline databasescontaining approximately 24 million records of Medline abstracts. Thetext mining tool used for determining these co-incident measurements waslicensed from the university of Connecticut. The resulting co-incidentmeasurements were recorded. A co-incident measurement frequencythreshold of 20 was selected for identifying MedDRA terms characterizingnetwork nodes constituting subnetworks of the selected secondary diseasenetworks. The number of network nodes for the resulting diseasesubnetwork with cooccurrence frequencies above the selected thresholdwere counted and recorded. Regarding the mining of informationassociated with biologically active substances, ontologies forsub-networks containing on average less than 300 network nodes and atleast 3 network nodes are preferred for constructing information densitybased object descriptor sets. Accordingly, the ontologies shown in F1are useful for identifying ontology subsets with the desired number ofnetwork nodes. These ontology subsets are useful for constructingdescriptors according to methods 1 and 2.

EXAMPLES Experiment 1, Example A1, Selected Examples of 1456 DiseaseNetworks

DIS_NTW_pulmonaryedema|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|C3|CRP|CS|PC|MB|ACE|RHO|HP|COIL|CAST|SRC|NOS2|CAD|F2|MPO|ATM|MSC|RHOA|PAH|RPE|NOS3|MAL|PVR|CPE|CXCL1|AQP1|AQP5|DIS_NTW_Burkittlymphoma|CD4|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|C3|FAS|CP|BAX|GC|SRC|CASP3|CD40|TP53|HLA-A|HLA-B|CD44|STAT1|MYC|CDKN1A|EFS|BCL2|BCL2L1|CD19|CPM|CD38|BCR|CD22|LYN|BCL6|CR2|ID3|DIS_NTW_basal cellcarcinoma|ACTIN|FAS|EGFR|MB|BAX|STAT3|CD34|TP53|PTGS2|PCNA|CXCR4|VDR|MDM2|GSTM1|GSTT1|PALM|GSTP1|MAL|BCL2|SHH|MCC|GLI1|ERCC2|SMO|GLI2|GLI3|MC1R|PTCH1|PHLDA1|PTCH2|DIS_NTW_candidiasis|CD4|TNF|C3|KIT|CS|PC|TG|GC|TH|STAT3|TLR4|AES|BID|FOXP3|ARC|TLR2|STAT1|NNT|CA3|OTC|AIRE|S100A9|S100A8|CDR2|CDR1|DEFB4A|AMPH|CARD9|DIS_NTW_alcoholdependence|CD4|AR|COPE|PRL|BDNF|TRH|ADA|FH|NPY|COMT|SLC6A4|CYP2E1|ALDH2|DRD2|SLC6A3|DRD4|ALDH1A1|NKX2-1|ADH1B|TOR1A|ADH1C|THAP1|OPRM1|SGCE|GABRA2|ANKK1|CAMK2A|DIS_NTW_otitismedia|CD4|TNF|C3|CRP|FAS|CP|TG|AR|TH|SDS|HP|TLR4|C2|CAST|BID|NOS2|TLR2|MPO|NHS|NPS|GPT|MYD88|NNT|MUC5AC|ABR|OMP|SPN|MUC5B|PAX9|DIS_NTW_renalfibrosis|ACTIN|EGFR|TG|ACE|BAX|STAT3|CD68|NOS2|HGF|CD44|CCL2|TGFB1|MSC|SP1|RHOA|MMP2|ANG|SMAD3|CTGF|SIRT1|SMAD2|SMAD4|SPP1|SMAD7|TEC|ACE2|S100A4|BMP7|COL4A3|HK2|DIS_NTW_nevus|ACTIN|NODAL|KIT|FAS|EGFR|MB|POLE|CD68|TP53|PCNA|SON|BRAF|RPE|CDK4|PALM|CDKN2A|NF1|HRAS|SHH|SLN|PAM|FGFR3|GLI1|NRAS|SMO|MITF|MLANA|MC1R|PTCH1|AMN|DIS_NTW_abdominal aorticaneurysm|ACTIN|TNF|CRP|CS|CP|PC|EGFR|ACE|CD68|COIL|CAST|CD40|PTGS2|CAD|TF|MTHFR|MPO|NHS|CCL2|APOE|TAT|MMP2|IL10|ANG|MMP9|SACS|SERPINE1|AAAS|LRP1|DIS_NTW_celiacdisease|CD4|ACTIN|TNF|KIT|FAS|PC|TG|MB|SDS|HP|TLR4|PTH|FOXP3|HLA-A|HLA-B|HLA-DRB1|CD14|AGA|CTLA4|HLA-DQB1|HFE|TPO|ACD|OAT|MICA|HLA-DQA1|IL15|IL12A|RGS1|DIS_NTW_paraplegia|C3|TG|ACE|TH|POLE|HP|COPE|COIL|C2|C6|ATM|RPE|MBP|C5|C7|FES|L1CAM|ALS2|PLP1|SPG11|SPG7|BICD2|BSCL2|CYP7B1|AFG3L2|ATL1|LHB|DIS_NTW_cholangitis|CD4|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|CRP|FAS|CP|PC|AR|TLR4|CAST|CD40|PTS|FOXP3|PCNA|HLA-B|HLA-DRB1|ABO|ACR|CFTR|PDC|HLA-C|AIP|MICA|DDC|CLDN1|ABCB4|DLAT|DIS_NTW_muscularatrophy|ACTIN|TG|MB|BAX|AR|CASP3|SON|C6|C5|CBS|DMD|C7|MOS|PGD|GEM|SOD1|SMN2|TRPV4|SV2A|MAP1B|SNRPN|BICD2|GARS|IGHMBP2|DIS_NTW_Kaposi'ssarcoma|CD4|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|C3|FAS|BAX|MTOR|STAT3|CD34|SRC|VEGFA|HGF|HLA-A|HLA-B|ARC|TAT|CASP8|RAC1|HLA-C|CD19|CFLAR|CXCR2|CDK6|OSM|IL6ST|SLK|RBPJ|EGLN2|DIS_NTW_synovitis|CD4|TNF|C3|CRP|CS|GC|RHO|STAT3|TLR4|CD68|CAST|VEGFA|PTGS2|HLA-DRB1|ARC|CD14|MSC|ACR|PALM|HMGB1|IL1RN|GCA|TNFRSF11B|TNFSF11|CD163|PIP|COMP|LARS|DIS_NTW_pulmonaryembolism|NODAL|CRP|CS|CP|PC|EGFR|MB|HP|COIL|CAST|AES|APC|BID|PTS|SI|CAD|MTHFR|NHS|TAT|SCT|PAH|PVR|NNT|CPE|OAT|MIP|SERPINE1|FABP3|DIS_NTW_invasivecarcinoma|CD4|ACTIN|NODAL|EGFR|BAX|AR|CD68|CD34|APC|TP53|NOS2|PTGS2|PCNA|CD44|MYC|BRAF|MUC1|ERBB2|BRCA1|BRCA2|SMAD4|MUC5AC|SLN|MUC2|TP63|ESD|PGR|HGD|MUC6|DIS_NTW_retinaldetachment|CD4|ACTIN|TNF|C3|FAS|CS|PC|POLE|CD68|C2|VEGFA|PCNA|ARC|ERG|GFAP|CLOCK|RPE|PVR|ACD|STAR|VHL|ECD|SPR|SRF|COL2A1|NDP|RLF|DIS_NTW_myelofibrosis|KIT|MTOR|STAT3|CD34|EPO|CXCR4|TGFB1|SCT|MVD|CXCL12|TPO|BCR|FGFR1|EZH2|FLT3|JAK1|CBL|MPL|IDH1|GATA1|PF4|JAK3|TET2|ASXL1|PDGFRB|SRSF2|CALR|CD177|DIS_NTW_goiter|CD4|NODAL|KIT|FAS|CS|PC|TG|TH|POLE|SDS|EGF|PTH|PCNA|SON|PRL|TRH|BRAF|RET|CXCL10|SHBG|TPO|DICER1|PAX8|TSHR|SLC26A4|BACH2|DUOX2|DIS_NTW_ductal carcinoma insitu|ACTIN|NODAL|CS|EGFR|AR|CD68|CD34|TP53|PTGS2|PCNA|CAD|CD44|NHS|ACR|MVD|AKT1|MUC1|ERBB2|BRCA1|NOTCH1|BRCA2|CPM|CCND1|SLN|TP63|CD24|PGR|S100A7|DIS_NTW_renalcarcinoma|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|FAS|EGFR|BAX|POLE|MTOR|EGF|PTH|SRC|CD40|APC|DES|EPO|HGF|CXCR4|HIF1A|MDM2|CASP8|IL2|VHL|CFLAR|TSC2|FHIT|CA9|TFE3|PRCC|DIS_NTW_leukopenia|CD4|NODAL|TNF|C3|CRP|FAS|CS|CP|PC|GC|MTOR|AES|BID|PTS|DES|EPO|MPO|AFP|ERBB2|ADM|MAL|GPT|SARS|GEM|MVP|CD22|TPMT|DIS_NTW_ironoverload|CD4|ACTIN|CRP|FAS|CP|GC|STAT3|SI|EPO|TF|HLA-A|HLA-B|SCT|RPE|HFE|SMAD4|HAMP|CDA|GDF15|BMP6|ALAS2|TFR2|TMPRSS6|FTL|HFE2|HEPH|DIS_NTW_autosomal recessivedisease|CS|MB|ATM|VDR|PAH|BRCA1|CFTR|HFE|AGT|PGD|AIRE|MEFV|NBN|AAAS|GAA|SLC26A4|FANCD2|SMN2|FANCA|FANCC|ABCC6|ABCG8|FANCG|ABCG5|CTNS|DMAP1|GALNS|DIS_NTW_chondrosarcoma|ACTIN|NODAL|CS|BAX|MTOR|SRC|TP53|PCNA|CD44|CXCR4|MDM2|CTGF|PTK2|RUNX2|CD99|TEC|IDH1|MMP13|EWSR1|SOX9|COL2A1|COMP|IDH2|NR4A3|ADAMTS5|EXT1|EXT2|DIS_NTW_primary biliarycirrhosis|CD4|ACTIN|TNF|C3|KIT|FAS|AR|TLR4|CD68|CD40|FOXP3|HLA-A|HLA-DRB1|AFP|SP1|VDR|CTLA4|CDKN1A|HLA-DQB1|PML|CD28|TLR9|GPT|PDC|HLA-C|KRT7|DLAT|DIS_NTW_lymphopenia|CD4|TNF|C3|CRP|FAS|TG|TH|MTOR|AES|FOXP3|CD44|CXCR4|ACR|FASLG|ADA|CD28|TLR9|CD19|SARS|CCR7|CD52|LCK|ATG7|F5|S1PR1|DIS_NTW_open-angleglaucoma|ACTIN|CS|PC|GC|POLE|RHO|AES|BID|MTHFR|CD44|F2|ERG|APOE|CLOCK|GSTM1|NOS3|GSTT1|DBP|CTGF|ACD|ABCA1|CYP1B1|PSD|NTM|DCT|OPTN|LOXL1|DIS_NTW_frontotemporaldementia|TG|MB|ACE|POLE|SDS|RAN|APOE|CLOCK|CA1|APP|CBS|INS|SOD1|FUS|PRNP|CDK5|MAPT|VCP|GRN|SQSTM1|LRRK2|PSEN1|PIN1|SNCA|C9ORF72|PSEN2|CHMP2B|DIS_NTW_latepregnancy|CD4|CRP|CP|TG|ACE|TH|SDS|COPE|PTH|MTHFR|F2|SON|PRL|SP1|ANG|CA1|DBP|AVP|CRH|FOS|CA3|IGF2|POMC|NFKB1|PGF|DIS_NTW_bonedisease|NODAL|TNF|PC|EGFR|TH|SDS|PTH|SRCHGF|MSC|VDR|AGA|CFTR|GLA|TNFRSF11B|TNFSF11|RUNX2|FGF23|PTHLH|CCL3|VIT|DKK1|CTSK|SOST|NFATC1|HPN|LRP5|DIS_NTW_gastriculcer|ACTIN|KIT|CP|EGFR|BAX|GC|TH|HP|EGF|COIL|BID|NOS2|PTGS2|PCNA|HGF|MPO|RAN|ABO|NOS3|CBS|LPO|PTGS1|CYP2C19|PGC|TFF3|TFF1|DIS_NTW_microphthalmia|ACTIN|KIT|MB|STAT3|RPE|SHH|TNFSF11|BMP4|SOX2|HCCS|PAX6|MITF|CTSK|NFATC1|DCT|MLANA|PAX3|SOX10|TFE3|TYRP1|PIAS3|MFRP|BCOR|PITX3|DIS_NTW_teratoma|ACTIN|NODAL|KIT|CS|PC|TH|POLE|CD34|PTS|AFP|GFAP|VIP|MYC|MSC|BRAF|SCT|EFS|MUC5AC|NES|SOX2|POU5F1|PGC|F9|KLF4|DMRT1|DIS_NTW_demyelinatingdisease|CD4|TNF|FAS|TH|CD68|NOS2|FOXP3|HLA-DRB1|CCL2|C6|GFAP|TAT|SP1|CD86|MBP|CCR5|HLA-DQB1|PML|CXCR3|CCR2|APCS|CPM|AQP4|MOG|PLP1|ABCD1|DIS_NTW_Duchenne musculardystrophy|ACTIN|MB|ACE|GC|SDS|RHO|C2|SON|TGFB1|ERG|TAT|MSC|CTGF|STAR|DMD|PGD|OTC|PIP|GK|NOS1|AQP4|MYOD1|DAG1|PAX7|MYOG|MSTN|DIS_NTW_polyneuropathy|CD4|NODAL|TNF|C3|FAS|MB|ACE|COIL|AES|EPO|ARC|SON|NGF|MBP|PALM|FAP|ACHE|ENG|TTR|PNP|DSP|PRNP|NF2|MFN2|MAG|MPZ|DIS_NTW_irritable bowelsyndrome|CRP|CS|AR|COPE|AES|BID|MPO|NHS|VIP|AGA|FH|CIC|CRH|FAP|NNT|CGA|SLC6A4|CCK|TRPV1|OCLN|NMS|FGFR4|GNB3|GAN|TPH1|CNR1|DIS_NTW_temporal lobeepilepsy|ACTIN|PC|GC|POLE|MTOR|GFAP|BDNF|APOE|CA1|MAL|PGP|NPY|NES|ECD|CA3|PRNP|AQP4|CA2|MAP2|SCN1A|CA4|CALB2|FER|LG1|DIS_NTW_bladdercarcinoma|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|FAS|EGFR|BAX|STAT3|EGF|SRC|CASP3|CD40|TP53|PTGS2|PCNA|TF|CD44|MYC|MVD|MDM2|TNFSF10|ADM|HRAS|FGFR3|KRT20|PRKCA|UBC|DIS_NTW_neuritis|CD4|NODAL|TNF|C3|CS|CP|MB|GC|COIL|C2|NOS2|FOXP3|HLA-DRB1|ARC|AFP|CCL2|ERG|GFAP|ATM|MBP|CCR5|MTR|AQP4|MOG|MAG|DIS_NTW_arteriosclerosis|CD4|ACTIN|C3|CRP|CS|CP|EGFR|TG|ACE|RHO|TLR4|CAST|CD40|NOS2|CAD|HGF|MTHFR|TGFB1|APOE|NOS3|ANG|LPL|GLA|GCA|PON1|DIS_NTW_azoospermia|KIT|MB|AR|MTHFR|SON|PRL|STS|GSTT1|MLH1|CFTR|SHBG|OAT|AMH|SRY|FSHR|SRR|DAZL|CDY1|DAZ2|PRM1|PRM2|DIS_NTW_cerebralinfarction|CD4|CRP|CP|TG|ACE|BAX|TH|POLE|RHO|TLR4|COIL|CASP3|CAD|MTHFR|MPO|GFAP|BDNF|APOE|TAT|VWF|MBP|CA1|ECD|GRASP|ALOX5AP|DIS_NTW_myositis|CD4|ACTIN|TNF|C3|CRP|FAS|TG|MB|CD68|CAST|HLA-DRB1|CXCL10|ADM|APP|BMP4|HLA-DQA1|BACE1|TTN|EXOSC10|ACVR1|CAPN3|CHD4|CMAS|DIS_NTW_Barrett'sesophagus|NODAL|EGFR|MB|HP|EGF|APC|TP53|NOS2|PTGS2|SI|PCNA|MUC1|CDKN2A|SMAD4|MUC5AC|MUC2|CDX2|KRT20|KRT7|HGD|MUC6|LARS|CDX1|NOX5|DIS_NTW_brainedema|TNF|TG|BAX|TLR4|VEGFA|EPO|MPO|C6|GFAP|HIF1A|MMP9|CA1|HMGB1|AVP|HMOX1|CA3|C9|S100B|OCLN|AQP4|AQP1|CLDN5|AQP9|DIS_NTW_familial adenomatouspolyposis|ACTIN|BAX|APC|TP53|PTGS2|PCNA|BRAF|RPE|RET|BRCA1|FAP|MLH1|CTNNB1|BRCA2|SMAD4|MSH2|PTGS1|MCC|PGD|DCC|MSH6|PMS2|MUTYH|BMPR1A|DIS_NTW_acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome|CD4|ACTIN|NODAL|TNF|C3|KIT|FAS|PC|TG|POLE|CD68|COPE|CD40|EPO|HLA-B|ARC|CXCR4|TAT|FASLG|CCR5|PML|CCR2|ERAS|DDC|DIS_NTW_hyperhomocysteinemia|ACTIN|CRP|PC|ACE|APC|CAD|MTHFR|GFAP|APOE|VWF|NOS3|ANG|MMP9|PML|CBS|PON1|COMT|MTR|CYBB|MTRR|BHMT|MMACHC|DIS_NTW_leukoencephalopathy|CD4|POLE|CD68|EGF|HLA-A|HLA-DRB1|GFAP|TAT|SP1|MBP|HLA-DQB1|PML|MAL|MTR|NOTCH3|NOTCH4|CSF1R|HTRA1|MLC1|TYROBP|DIS_NTW_dyspepsia|KIT|CP|PC|GC|SDSHP|EGF|AES|BID|PTGS2|SRI|VIP|AGA|FAP|CPM|CBS|SLC6A4|CCK|TRPV1|OTC|PDE5A|GNB3|OCM|DIS_NTW_spontaneousabortion|CD4|TNF|C3|TH|AES|FOXP3|HLA-A|HLA-B|HLA-DRB1|MTHFR|F2|AFP|PRL|CTLA4|IL10|HLA-DQB1|CD69|SACS|PGD|HLA-G|HLA-DQA1|CD200|FGL2|DIS_NTW_papillary thyroidcarcinoma|NODAL|KIT|FAS|PC|EGFR|TG|POLE|STAT3|APC|CXCR4|BRAF|MUC1|RET|FAP|CTNNB1|HRAS|SLN|NRAS|PAX8|TSHR|HTT|NTRK1|NCOA4|DIS_NTW_Newcastledisease|CD4|ACTIN|TNF|C3|KIT|CS|CP|TH|SDS|DES|F2|STAT1|CD28|CPE|GAL|FURIN|IRF1|IRF3|IRF7|TBK1|DDX58|IRF2|DIS_NTW_thalassemia|CD4|CS|PC|TH|SDS|PTH|EPO|HLA-A|SRI|ABO|SCT|PAH|HFE|G6PD|PGD|HAMP|GATA1|ATRX|HBD|BCL11A|HBA2|HBB|DIS_NTW_keratitis|CD4|ACTIN|KIT|FAS|CS|TG|GC|TLR4|TLR2|MPO|CCL2|RAN|TLR9|MYD88|CPE|ECD|CXCL1|CXCL2|CSK|NTM|AMT|IK|DIS_NTW_esophagitis|CD4|NODAL|EGFR|TG|HP|EGF|CAST|APC|BID|TP53|PTS|PTGS2|SI|PCNA|FH|TRPV1|GRASP|CDX2|CYP2C19|EDA|CCL26|LARS|DIS_NTW_urticaria|CD4|TNF|C3|CRP|KIT|ACE|AR|HP|C2|AES|HLA-B|HLA-DRB1|F2|C5|GPT|TPO|ACD|NLRP3|SYK|CD63|NRL|DIS_NTW_cystitis|ACTIN|TNF|C3|CRP|KIT|CS|CP|EGF|CD34|NOS2|PTGS2|BDNF|SCT|NGF|MIF|GPT|GAL|MCC|TRPV1|UMOD|KRT20|HBEGF|DIS_NTW_cerebralpalsy|CP|PC|SDS|RHO|COPE|CAST|ARC|APOE|STS|MAX|AGA|PALM|CCS|DMD|C7|MOS|GRASP|ABR|SPR|FES|SLC6A3|CIT|DCD|DIS_NTW_invasive ductalcarcinoma|ACTIN|NODAL|KIT|EGFR|BAX|AR|CD34|TP53|PTGS2|PCNA|CD44|MYC|MVD|MUC1|ERBB2|BRCA1|BRCA2|CCN

Experiment 1, Example A, 1456 Disease Network Based Information DesityDescriptors for 6638 Objects

drugsSum(counts) for 3-methylglutaconic aciduriaSum(counts) for abdominal aortic aneurysmSum(counts) for abetalipoproteinemiaSum(counts) for acanthosis nigricansSum(counts) for achalasiaSum(counts) for achondroplasiaSum(counts) for achromatopsiaSum(counts) for acinar cell carcinomaSum(counts) for acneSum(counts) for acoustic neuromaSum(counts) for acquired immunodeficiency syndromeSum(counts) for acrodysostosisSum(counts) for acromegalySum(counts) for actinic keratosisSum(counts) for acute diarrheaSum(counts) for acute intermittent porphyriaSum(counts) for acute leukemiaSum(counts) for acute lymphocytic leukemiaSum(counts) for acute monocytic leukemiaSum(counts) for acute myeloid leukemiaSum(counts) for acute myocardial infarctionSum(counts) for acute pancreatitisSum(counts) for acute promyelocytic leukemiaSum(counts) for acute pyelonephritisSum(counts) for Addison's diseaseSum(counts) for adenocarcinomaSum(counts) for adenomaSum(counts) for adenosquamous carcinomaSum(counts) for adrenal adenomaSum(counts) for adrenal hyperplasiaSum(counts) for adrenocortical carcinomaSum(counts) for adrenocortical hyperplasiaSum(counts) for adrenoleukodystrophySum(counts) for adult respiratory distress syndromeSum(counts) for adult T-cell leukemiaSum(counts) for advanced sleep phase syndrome

Experiment 2, Example B, 975 MedDRA Network Based Information DensityDescriptors for 6943 Objects Drugs

Sum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ABDOMINAL PAINSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ABORTIONSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ABSCESS Sum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ABSENCESEIZURESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ABUSESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACANTHOSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACCIDENTSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACHALASIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACHESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACNESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACROMEGALYSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE LEUKEMIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROMESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ADDICTIONSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ADENITISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ADENOMASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCYSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROMESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AFFECTIVE DISORDERSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AGGRESSIONSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AGITATIONSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AGRANULOCYTOSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AIDSSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AKATHISIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AKINESIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASESum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALBUMINURIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALCOHOL PROBLEMSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALKALOSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALLERGIC CONDITIONSSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALLERGIC REACTIONSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALLERGIC RHINITISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALLERGYSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ALVEOLITISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AMAUROSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AMBLYOPIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AMENORRHEASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AMNESIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) AMYLOIDOSISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ANAPHYLAXISSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ANEMIASum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ANEURYSMSum(counts) for MED_ntw_(—) ANGER

Experiment 2, Example B1, Selection from 975 MedDRA Term Based ProteinSubnetworks

MED_ntw_(—) NECK PAIN|CRP|C3|C2|C6|C5|C7|LBP|CNP|MED_ntw_(—) LARYNGEALCANCER|NODAL|EGFR|BAX|PCNA|MVD|CD44|GSTM1|GSTT1|CCND1|MED_ntw_(—) KELOID|ACTIN|FAS|MTOR|TGFB1|SMAD3|SMAD2|CTGF|SMAD4|SMAD7|MED_ntw_(—) BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK|CS|NODAL|MB|CAD|PTS|MAX|MPI|SCN5A|DSE|MED_ntw_(—) AORTIC REGURGITATION|ACE|AR|CAD|AVP|HLA-B|MVP|ESD|RHD|MED_ntw_(—) CANCER PAIN|CP|COPE|AES|CLOCK|MSC|TRPV1|NNT|CPM|BPI|MED_ntw_(—) LYMPHOCYTOSIS|CD4|TNF|NODAL|FAS|HP|CD19|CD38|CD5|MED_ntw_(—) MYCOBACTERIALINFECTION|CD4|TNF|NOS2|TLR4|TLR2|STAT1|MYD88|NTM|MED_ntw_(—) HEPATIC DAMAGE|ACTIN|FAS|BAX|NOS2|MPO|GPT|CCL4|CYP2E1|MED_ntw_(—) SLEEP DISTURBANCE|CD4|CRP|CP|AR|COPE|CLOCK|ACR|MOS|TST|MED_ntw_(—) ZINC DISORDER|CD4|CRP|ACE|CASP3|RPE|SLC39A1|SLC39A4|MED_ntw_(—) AKATHISIA|TH|AES|NNT|CYP2D6|PTPRD|MAP2K5|MEIS1|BTBD9|MED_ntw_(—) ICHTHYOSIS|CS|TG|MB|STS|FLG|SP|NK5|ABHD5|ABCA12|MED_ntw_(—) HYPOTONIA|CP|MB|SON|MECP2|GAA|RYR1|ACTA1|SNRPN|MED_ntw_(—) SYNDACTYLY|MB|SON|SHH|FGFR2|FGF8|GJA1|GLI3|HOXD13|MED_ntw_(—) SKIN DISORDER|CD4|ACTIN|MAL|ATP2A2|DSG3|COL7A1|SPINK5|ATP2C|MED_ntw_(—) OPTIC ATROPHY|MB|POLE|ERG|OPA1|MFN2|OPA3|DNM1L|PRPS1|MED_ntw_(—) EXFOLIATION|ACTIN|PC|CAST|GC|MICA|AFM|LOXL1|MED_ntw_(—) VIRILISATION|AR|SHBG|SRY|POR|CYP19A1|SRD5A2|CYP11B1|CYP21A2|MED_ntw_(—) PELVIC PAIN|CP|CS|KIT|NGF|TRPV1|PGP|SCN11A|P2RX3|MED_ntw_(—) ALKALOSIS|PTH|CA1|ALK|CDA|SLC12A3|SLC26A4|CLCNKB|MED_ntw_(—) POLYURIA|PTH|AVP|AQP4|AQP1|AQP2|AQP3|SLC12A1|AVPR2|MED_ntw_(—) AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY|CAD|EPO|NGF|FAP|TTR|HBA1|WNK1|NTRK1|MED_ntw_(—) HYPERURICEMIA|CRP|ACE|TG|EGFR|CAD|UMOD|ABCG2|SLC2A9|MED_ntw_(—) RENAL CYST|POLE|EGFR|MTOR|SRC|CFTR|VHL|PKD1|PKD2|MED_ntw_(—) FIBROCYSTIC BREASTDISEASE|ACTIN|NODAL|COIL|EGF|PRL|TRH|PIP|MGA|MED_ntw_(—) RESPIRATORY INFECTION|CD4|CRP|TH|KIT|AHR|SARS|PIK3CD|MED_ntw_(—) NEPHROSIS|C3|ACTIN|ACE|TG|AFP|RARA|NPHS2|MED_ntw_(—) KNEE PAIN|POLE|AES|RHO|NHS|RAN|TF|ACR|KL|MED_ntw_(—) PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY|TH|SDS|PRL|PAH|TRH|FH|IPP|KISS1|MED_ntw_(—) VASCULAR DISORDER|ACTIN|ACE|COIL|CAD|VWF|NOS3|ENG|ACVRL1|MED_ntw_(—) TETRALOGY OF FALLOT|NODAL|COIL|TF|PVR|LPA|MPI|GATA4|NKX2-5|MED_ntw_(—) MANIA|POLE|AES|CLOCK|BDNF|TRH|SLC6A4|BPI|AMPH|MED_ntw_(—) MOTOR DYSFUNCTION|CP|TG|POLE|BDNF|GFAP|GDNF|SOD1|HTT|MED_ntw_(—) EXOPHTHALMOS|ACTIN|CS|COIL|CD34|TRH|ECD|CD99|MED_ntw_(—) ANGIOPATHY|ACTIN|TG|APOE|APP|CST3|NOTCH3|PRNP|PSEN1|MED_ntw_(—) TARDIVE DYSKINESIA|HP|BDNF|CYP2D6|CYP1A2|HAL|DBH|DRD2|DRD3|MED_ntw_(—) CATALEPSY|CP|TH|POLE|GC|F2|FOS|HAL|DRD3|MED_ntw_(—) PHOTOTOXICITY|ARC|C6|PAH|NPS|RPE|HPD|CPZ|MED_ntw_(—) DELIRIUM|CRP|COPE|CLOCK|APOE|NMS|S100B|AMT|SLC6A3|MED_ntw_(—) RENAL INTERSTITIALFIBROSIS|ACTIN|ANG|HGF|TGFB1|SMAD3|SMAD2|CTGF|SMAD7|MED_ntw_(—) HOSTILITY|CRP|COPE|CAD|SI|PRL|TAT|DBP|CORT|MED_ntw_(—) ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA|NODAL|FAS|EGFR|BAX|EGF|PCNA|MVD|ESD|MED_ntw_(—) LYMPHADENITIS|CD4|CRP|NODAL|FAS|CD68|GPT|NTM|MED_ntw_(—) HEPATOCELLULAR DAMAGE|TNF|ACTIN|FAS|TLR4|STAT3|HMGB1|CCL4|MED_ntw_(—) CONJUNCTIVITIS|C3|KIT|AR|AES|BID|ARC|ACD|MED_ntw_(—) NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS|CRP|TNF|NOS2|TLR4|EGF|AGA|NNT|MED_ntw_(—) POLYARTHRITIS|CD4|CRP|C3|TNF|ACR|HLA-B|HLA-DRB1|MED_ntw_(—) ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS|CRP|PC|CAD|TF|APC|VWF|MTHFR|MED_ntw_(—) DENTAL CARIES|CD4|CP|CS|COPE|GC|NHS|SRI|TF|MED_ntw_(—) CARDIOGENIC SHOCK|CRP|CS|NODAL|ACE|MB|PTS|DES|MED_ntw_(—) PORPHYRIA|AIP|HFE|CYP1A2|DDC|ALAD|ALAS2|HMBS|MED_ntw_(—) CONNECTIVE TISSUEDISORDER|MVP|COL1A1|COL1A2|FBN1|COL3A1|COL5A1|ABCC6|MED_ntw_(—) MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA|NMS|HAL|RYR2|RYR1|CACNA1S|CASQ|MED_ntw_(—) KERATOPATHY|ACTIN|PC|PVR|ECD|AMT|PAX6|PBK|MED_ntw_(—) HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY|CD4|NODAL|FAS|CD5|CD7|NPC1|NPC2|MED_ntw_(—) ACANTHOSIS|SHBG|LMNA|FGFR3|FGFR2|INSR|BSCL2|MED_ntw_(—) GALLSTONES|PC|TG|CCK|CYP7A1|ABCB4|ABCG8|MED_ntw_(—) POLYMYOSITIS|CD4|C3|TNF|MB|HLA-DRB1|DMD|EXOSC10|MED_ntw_(—) DESQUAMATION|SARS|KLK5|SPINK5|DSG1|CDSN|MED_ntw_(—) PEELING|ACTIN|POLE|ERG|RPE|PVR|AFM|CDSN|MED_ntw_(—) HYPOALBUMINEMIA|CD4|CRP|C3|EGFR|PTH|ALB|APTX|MED_ntw_(—) OPTIC NEUROPATHY|POLE|ERG|MTHFR|GCA|PSD|OPA1|OPA3|MED_ntw_(—) EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS|CD4|FAS|HLA-B|HLA-A|FASLG|CYP2B6|GNLY|MED_ntw_(—) PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA|NODAL|EGFR|MTOR|VEGFA|MSC|ERCC1|REN|MED_ntw_(—) MUSCLE INJURY|ACTIN|MB|DMD|MYOD1|PAX7|MYOG|MED_ntw_(—) STILLBIRTH|CD4|CS|COPE|NHS|AFP|FGR|

Experiment 3 Example C Descriptors for 3989 Objects Derived fromInformation Density Measurement of 441 Physiology Term Derived ProteinSubnetworks

physilogy derived protein sub-networks objects information desinsitymeasurements PHYSIOL_NETW_CD4 5-azacitidine 6 PHYSIOL_NETW_Oogenesis5-azacitidine 5 PHYSIOL_NETW_Organogenesis 5-azacitidine 7PHYSIOL_NETW_Orientation 5-azacitidine 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_Ovulation5-azacitidine 7 PHYSIOL_NETW_Phagocytosis 5-azacitidine 7PHYSIOL_NETW_Platelet Count 5-azacitidine 5 PHYSIOL_NETW_Puberty5-azacitidine 5 PHYSIOL_NETW_Pulse 5-azacitidine 8PHYSIOL_NETW_Remission 5-azacitidine 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_Reproduction5-azacitidine 11 PHYSIOL_NETW_Respiration 5-azacitidine 8PHYSIOL_NETW_Running 5-azacitidine 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_Sensation5-azacitidine 6 PHYSIOL_NETW_Sleep 5-azacitidine 8PHYSIOL_NETW_Spermatogenesis 5-azacitidine 13 PHYSIOL_NETW_Swimming5-azacitidine 5 PHYSIOL_NETW_VentricularFunction 5-azacitidine 5PHYSIOL_NETW_Vision 5-azacitidine 7 PHYSIOL_NETW_Weaning 5-azacitidine 8PHYSIOL_NETW_WeightGain 5-azacitidine 7 PHYSIOL_NETW_WoundHealing5-azacitidine 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_CD4 Abacavir 51 PHYSIOL_NETW_OocystsAbacavir 171 PHYSIOL_NETW_Oogenesis Abacavir 8PHYSIOL_NETW_Organogenesis Abacavir 179 PHYSIOL_NETW_OrientationAbacavir 323 PHYSIOL_NETW_Osteogenesis Abacavir 178PHYSIOL_NETW_Osteolysis Abacavir 17 PHYSIOL_NETW_Overweight Abacavir 196PHYSIOL_NETW_Ovulation Abacavir 190 PHYSIOL_NETW_Pain Threshold Abacavir7 PHYSIOL_NETW_Parity Abacavir 170 PHYSIOL_NETW_Partial ThromboplastinTime Abacavir 188 PHYSIOL_NETW_Parturition Abacavir 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_PeakExpiratory Flow Rate Abacavir 9 PHYSIOL_NETW_Peripheral ToleranceAbacavir 169 PHYSIOL_NETW_Phagocytosis Abacavir 204PHYSIOL_NETW_Physical Fitness Abacavir 170 PHYSIOL_NETW_PlasmaVolumeAbacavir 11 PHYSIOL_NETW_Platelet Aggregation Abacavir 50PHYSIOL_NETW_Platelet Count Abacavir 306 PHYSIOL_NETW_PlateletActivationAbacavir 193 PHYSIOL_NETW_Postpartum Period Abacavir 166PHYSIOL_NETW_Posture Abacavir 6 PHYSIOL_NETW_Pregnancy Outcome Abacavir285

Experiment 3, Example C1, Ontology for Nodes in 441 Physiology TermBased Protein Subnetworks

PHYSIOL_NETW_Thermogenesis|PPARGC1A|NPY|TRH|LCT|LPL|COPE|PRDM16|TEFHP|FOS|ARC|DIO2|FAS|TRPV1|CRH|CIT|BMP8B|TG|TH|AGRP|MTOR|FGF21|TNF|POMC|COIL|SLC2A4|MC4R|CIDEA|ANG|SLN|STAT3|ADRB3|CS|GC|PYY|TES|FABP4|NTS|CLOCK|AVP|TRPM8|FABP7|MPO|CPI|GF2|AR|BDNF|CAST|RAN|MB|MAX|MUSK|BMP7|ATF4|RARA|GPR50|ACOT13|PHYSIOL_NETW_Theta Rhythm|CA1|CA3|RAN|MPO|BDNF|ACHE|HCN1|PHYSIOL_NETW_Thinness|BID|ACTIN|RAN|PYY|AR|SRI|PHYSIOL_NETW_ThrombinTime|VWF|TAT|FGG|FGB|PC|CS|TF|PROC|FGA|PF4|CRP|C3|MAX|APC|PLG|FDPS|PHYSIOL_NETW_Thrombopoiesis|TPO|MPL|MEIS1|DNM3|EPO|ACTIN|KIT|CD4|GC|SRC|GATA1|PHYSIOL_NETW_TidalVolume|PIP|MAX|PC|CS|TANK|PPL|C2|MIP|RHO|MPO|SI|CXCL2|NTS|ACE|TLR4|PVR|ACTIN|CP|TNF|DMD|C3|RAN|CAST|SACS|ANG|TH|AR|VIP|LTF|C5|SRC|PALM|COIL|RPE|FH|EPO|COPE|ATM|ASL|C7|FEV|RARS|SARS|MB|CAD|PNP|IDS|TRH|NOS2|ACD|NMS|DSP|HMGB1|HAL|CXCL1|COPA|MEFV|ACHE|MBP|NODAL|FOS|TRPV1|DES|HP|CAPS|CCK|C6|ATR|FES|MIF|CPD|CTRL|MYD88|AIP|SKI|CFB|CTGF|STRAP|VCP|PGD|CD14|PHYSIOL_NETW_ToothEruption|EGF|TNFRSF11B|RUNX2|CAST|BMP6|PTH1R|TNFSF11|BMP2|DMP1|PHYSIOL_NETW_Torpor|COPE|CLOCK|GPR50|NPY|CA1|CA3|PTMS|PHYSIOL_NETW_Total LungCapacity|MEFV|MIP|FEV|ARC|MAX|PAH|ACE|AHR|CAD|COIL|CRP|PC|SARS|HP|SCT|TG|PHYSIOL_NETW_Touch|SI|GRASP|PALM|SLN|COPE|PC|NODAL|CP|PREP|KIT|NHS|PIEZO2|CS|C3|TANK|ACTIN|FOS|POLE|RET|COIL|C2|TH|HP|CAST|TRPV1|CAPS|SP6|ARC|AR|C5|RAN|C6|STAR|DCD|TG|C7|CLOCK|AFM|APP|NUMB|CD4|RHO|STS|EGF|NGF|NPS|TRPV4|CD68|SMS|PIEZO1|CAD|SCT|VIP|PGP|EGFR|RPE|F2|ADA|ECD|CCND1|MYCN|MAX|ACE|SDS|CA1|PRL|SON|MB|HMGB1|ACHE|DES|DBP|TES|PTGS2|MCC|APOE|GAN|SP1|TP53|DST|DCN|SP2|CTBS|ACR|ATOH1|PHYSIOL_NETW_TransplantationTolerance|CD40|CD4|FOXP3|CTLA4|DST|FAS|CD28|CD86|APCS|TNFRSF18|CP|VDR|TLR4|APC|STAT3|MYD88|TLR9|CD80|CD274|PHYSIOL_NETW_Tropism|CCR5|CD4|CXCR4|CD46|CLMP|MSC|SI|SARS|TAT|CD81|ACTIN|CCR3|C6|PML|CCR2|C3|STAT1|TNFRSF4|PAM|CXCL12|SLC|9A2|CDR1|FAS|TNF|EGFR|RPE|CPE|FURIN|CR2|CD40|CP|C2|GC|CD5|CD163|PVR|ERBB2|CXCR2|CCR9|APC|NODAL|EGF|DES|ACE2|APOBEC3G|CTAGE1|TG|CXCR6|PC|APOE|GFAP|CCR7|CCL2|FGF2|CD44|MLN|CLDN1|IFIH1|CEACAM1|CLEC4M|STAT3|TH|DMD|SRC|CD69|PALM|COPE|POLE|CD68|SACS|CD14|CFTR|HGF|GALT|RAC1|CX3CR1|CCL25|OCLN|TMPRSS2|CS|CD86|APCS|MTOR|CD2|PDC|HP|CAST|F2|SP1|F3|NES|VWF|JUN|FYN|GSC|TNFSF11|EPO|VEGFA|CCR4|CR1|CCL28|CX3CL1|CXCR3|CCR8|APOB|PARVA|F11R|CCL5|APOC3|DDX58|TNFSF10|APOC2|CCR10|RCVRN|ROBO4|EPHA2|YBX1|GRR1|PHYSIOL_NETW_TumorEscape|FAS|HLA-G|FASLG|EBAG9|KLRK1|HLA-A|MLANA|PMEL|EGFR|CTLA4|CD274|PDCD1|TAP2|CD4|STAT3|CD86|APCS|FOXP3|TLR4|MICA|HLA-B|HLA-C|CXCR4|ACTIN|CXCL12|CD40|APC|IL10|CD59|PSCA|MICB|MAGEA3|PHYSIOL_NETW_Urination|PVR|PC|CP|CIC|ARC|PRUNE|COPE|TH|COIL|MAX|AVP|C2|PALM|POLE|RHO|BCR|DES|F2|ACHE|AES|GPT|SI|C6|NGF|AQP2|S100B|CD4|NODAL|PDE5A|AGA|NPS|NHS|TRPV1|RAN|DCD|SDS|BID|PHYSIOL_NETW_Urodynamics|LPP|CIC|PVR|RHO|MCC|BCR|NGF|ALPP|PRUNE|IPP|PC|ARC|PHYSIOL_NETW_Uterine Contraction|F2|PGF|SP6|PHYSIOL_NETW_VaccinePotency|APCS|BCL2D|KIT|PHYSIOL_NETW_ValsalvaManeuver|MB|SI|CLPP|PALM|NODAL|CAD|PHYSIOL_N ETW_VascularRemodeling|PAH|ANG|ACTIN|NOS3|ACE|RHO|BMP4|ID1|MMP2|BMPR2|VEGFA|CRP|RHOA|STAT3|ID3|RAC1|EGFR|HIF1A|PCNA|PVR|TGFB1|NOX4|CTGF|SPP1|CAD|MMP9|TNF|ENG|EGF|SRC|SMAD2|NOTCH1|NOS2|SACS|LPA|BAX|FAS|CASP3|CXCL12|ACE2|MTOR|PTGS2|AR|TF|CXCR4|FLT1|CCL2|EPHB4|TRPC6|SOD1|CCR2|EPHA2|CNP|SMAD3|NOTCH4|CD4|CD40|CX3CD|EGR1|SLC6A4|GK|APLN|ANGPT1|COIL|NODAL|ARC|HMGB1|PC|C3|PDE5A|CD68|VIP|AHR|CX3CR1|VWF|SMAD1|TPH1|LOX|NOX1|APLNR|CDK2|DES|PLAUR|TPR|FH|COPE|TG|TRPC4|CD34|TLR4|CEACAM1|CCL5|SP1|EPO|CD36|HMOX1|CXCL1|LCN2|FOXO1|PRKG1|PTK2|CYBB|DLL4|SYK|UNK|TIE1|PDE1C|NGF|GFAP|AVP|MB|DBP|TRPV4|SRF|NOS1|INS|HLA-G|ERBB2|BCL2|PTX3|AKT1|TAT|APOE|CD14|CXCR3|AXL|NFATC2|PTGS1|SGK1|MIF|CTSK|CFD|AQP1|ADAM17|TAL1|ANXA5|TRPM7|SLC9A1|LRP1|ERBB4|RGS2|CDK4|SMAD4|UTS2R|SOD2|VHL|SMARCA4|GREM1|BIRC5|GATA6|PTK2B|TEK|FBLN5|HEY2|MEOX2|PHYSIOL_NETW_VascularResistance|PVR|PAH|ANG|ACE|TPR|AVP|MAX|F2|SI|NOS3|DBP|CAD|NPY|PC|VIP|MB|MBP|TNF|CS|CP|RHO|NOS2|LPA|RHOA|PTS|PDE5A|EPO|HP|ACTIN|NODAL|ADO|NTS|BMPR2|COPE|TH|C2|APOE|BID|NOS1|ADM|RAN|TRH|CRP|EGFR|AR|TG|MPO|DAP|PAM|C3|CAST|FGR|MPI|PIP|MARS|COIL|PTGS1|PGF|FAP|CRH|DCD|SRI|MRAP|CNP|ARC|VWF|DES|FH|TAT|CFD|PTH|AGA|SDS|GC|TRPC6|KIT|ATM|ERAS|PALM|CD59|HBD|CCL4|PGC|EMD|VEGFA|SRC|PTGS2|HMGB1|NPS|TRPC3|TANK|PPP1R12A|POLE|AES|C5|STH|PCNA|TF|TRPC4|HMOX1|CASR|CAPS|TRPV1|F3|ERG|CSK|APC|ACD|GAL|ATP1A2|ADA|REN|DPP4|ABR|DBT|CCK|SLC12A2|FEV|GHR|LPO|TYR|DAO|KY|PHYSIOL_N ETW_VascularStiffness|EGFR|NOS3|ANG|PVR|PAH|ACE|GLA|DBP|CAD|HP|ARG2|

Experiment 8 Example E1_Ontology for Anatomy Based Phys Sub NETW

Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkBrain|Brain|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkMouth|Mouth|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkNeurons|Neurons|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkHypothalamus|Hypothalamus|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkNervous System|Nervous System|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkHead|Head|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkHeart|Heart|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkEye|Eye|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkTemporomandibular Joint|Temporomandibular Joint|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkCentral Nervous System|Central Nervous System|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkJaw|Jaw|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkTongue|Tongue|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkSkin|Skin|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkArm|Arm|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkEustachian Tube|Eustachian Tube|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkMuscles|Muscles|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkNeck|Neck|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkBrain Stem|Brain Stem|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkEar|Ear|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkFetus|Fetus|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkHand|Hand|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkHippocampus|Hippocampus|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkDopaminergic Neurons|Dopaminergic Neurons|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkFace|Face|Phy_NTW_Yawningkk_aa_kkNucleus Accumbens|Nucleus Accumbens|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkSkin|Skin|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkFoot|Foot|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkEye|Eye|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkLeg|Leg|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkLiver|Liver|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkEpidermis|Epidermis|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkLung|Lung|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkBreast|Breast|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkCornea|Cornea|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkBack|Back|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkDermis|Dermis|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkTooth|Tooth|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkMouth|Mouth|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkNeck|Neck|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkHair|Hair|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkKidney|Kidney|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkHeart|Heart|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkHead|Head|Phy_NTW_Wound Healingkk_aa_kkBlood Vessels|Blood Vessels|

Experiment 8, Example E2, Node Counts for Anatomy Based Phys Sub NETW

network node count Phy_NTW_Acclimatization 37 Phy_NTW_Acid-BaseEquilibrium 15 Phy_NTW_Acrosome Reaction 32 Phy_NTW_Adaptive Immunity 37Phy_NTW_Adiposity 96 Phy_NTW_Adolescent Development 11Phy_NTW_Adrenarche 11 Phy_NTW_Afterimage 7 Phy_NTW_Agglutination 108Phy_NTW_Airway Remodeling 12 Phy_NTW_Airway Resistance 69 Phy_NTW_AlphaRhythm 15 Phy_NTW_Amelogenesis 24 Phy_NTW_Anaerobic Threshold 35Phy_NTW_Andropause 6 Phy_NTW_Anestrus 15 Phy_NTW_Anovulation 27Phy_NTW_Antibody Affinity 11 Phy_NTW_Antibody Diversity 3Phy_NTW_Antibody Formation 19 Phy_NTW_Antibody Specificity 19Phy_NTW_Antigen Presentation 77 Phy_NTW_Antigen-Antibody Reactions 3Phy_NTW_Antigenic Variation 13 Phy_NTW_Appetite Regulation 13Phy_NTW_Arthralgia 68 Phy_NTW_Asymmetric Cell Division 17 Phy_NTW_AtrialFunction 13 Phy_NTW_Atrial Pressure 63 Phy_NTW_Atrial Remodeling 8Phy_NTW_Autoimmunity 120 Phy_NTW_Axonal Transport 184 Phy_NTW_Baroreflex106 Phy_NTW_Beta Rhythm 7 Phy_NTW_Biological Clocks 4 Phy_NTW_BleedingTime 50 Phy_NTW_Blinking 40 Phy_NTW_Blood Cell Count 101 Phy_NTW_BloodCirculation 170 Phy_NTW_Blood Flow Velocity 124 Phy_NTW_Blood GroupIncompatibility 7 Phy_NTW_Blood Viscosity 63 Phy_NTW_Blushing 7Phy_NTW_Body Composition 99 Phy_NTW_Body Fat Distribution 27Phy_NTW_Body Height 82 Phy_NTW_Body Patterning 8

Experiment 8, Example E3, Edge Count Descriptors for 16 Objects and 472Physiological Subnetworks

subnetwork node count 37 15 32 37 96 11 11 7 108 12 69 15 24 35 6 15 2711 3 19 19 77 2 13 13 68 17 13 63 8 120 184 106 7 4 50 40 101 170 124 7215 7 99 27 82 8 134 112 5 16 30 152 53 69 90 146 9 10 40 21 36 2 60 20615 55 9 35 13 171 4 136 56 7 7 92 10 34 7 22 49 74 3 14 17 126 40 5 1215 7 2 4 44 117 43 88 219 19 40 42 2 10 7 57 56 27 82 162 30 3 19 68 6920 33 234 121 213 82 26 239 8 12 49 13 7 12 4 59 5 103 115 6 3 117 61 3210 11 141 4 174 161 129 24 9 57 113 13 188 21 15 70 77 9 76 45 5 12 7 335 4 86 23 59 36 84 46 31 21 108 67 108 22 3 176 118 8 13 58 32 19 6 104167 257 86 10 2 54 9 70 13 65 56 55 4 22 50 28 8 2 70 78 79 11 2 167 1134 95 5 31 72 8 3 167 113 10 61 4 52 4 225 148 105 8 33 80 21 28 40 36 4215 56 175 2 10 113 59 109 105 98 28 34 231 211 201 47 78 105 147 15 4 5751 13 17 18 5 57 191 106 19 7 184 9 86 22 44 31 80 8 136 6 19 52 54 2618 135 26 35 10 60 177 111 45 14 144 46 153 4 5 114 100 8 73 125 13 1620 39 12 144 6 20 78 198 57 2 19 6 26 56 18 10 27 14 40 71 66 3 173 10642 37 19 50 16 20 7 62 66 8 54 79 70 95 95 76 21 16 184 63 7 3 23 36 1965 21 117 15 185 125 44 57 76 112 71 15 18 39 7 136 27 53 52 24 111 23 710 5 5 31 80 3 51 24 4 3 23 18 37 56 64 41 56 42 8 16 32 112 31 70 27 8231 16 4 25 4 17 24 26 96 12 18 46 111 25 68 165 212 24 75 187 79 201 410 53 39 38 17 7 101 35 16 6 23 217 6 9 13 98 11 106 31 23 4 56 7 19 209207 153 3 94 68 28 19 26 182 62 95 26 165 26 65 22 124 257 23 263objects/subnetworks Acclimatization Acid-Base Equilibrium AcrosomeReaction Adaptive Immunity Adiposity Adolescent Development AdrenarcheAfterimage Agglutination Airway Remodeling Airway Resistance AlphaRhythm Amelogenesis Anaerobic Threshold Andropause Anestrus AnovulationAntibody Affinity Antibody Diversity Antibody Formation AntibodySpecificity Antigen Presentation Antigen-Antibody Reactions AntigenicVariation Appetite Regulation Arthralgia Asymmetric Cell Division AtrialFunction Atrial Pressure Atrial Remodeling Autoimmunity Axonal TransportBaroreflex

Beta Rhythm Biological Clocks Bleeding Time Blinking Blood Cell CountBlood Circulation Blood Flow Velocity Blood Group Incompatibility BloodViscosity Blushing Body Composition Body Fat Distribution Body HeightBody Patterning Body Size Body Surface Area Body Temperature Regulation

Body Weight Changes Bone Conduction Bone Density Bone Development BoneRegeneration Bone Remodeling Bone Resorption Brain Waves BreakthroughPain Breast Feeding Breath Holding Breech PresentationBronchoconstriction Capillary Permeability Capillary Resistance CardiacVolume Cardiomegaly Cardiovascular Deconditioning Carotid Intima-MediaThickness

Experiment 8, Example E4, Transformation of Edge Count DescriptorsExample Oleic Acid_472 Physiological Subnetworks

edge density ration of subnetwork subnetwork measurements node/edgedensity node Physiology for Oleic measurement count subnetwork Acid(inverse ratio) 37 Acclimatization 28  1.3 (0.75) Acid-Base 15Equilibrium 13 1.15 (0.86) 32 Acrosome Reaction 15 2.13 (0.46) 37Adaptive Immunity 30 1.23 (0.81) 96 Adiposity 49 1.95 (0.51) 11Adolescent 8 1.375 (0.72)  Development 11 Adrenarche 6 1.83 (0.54) 7Afterimage 6 1.16 (0.85)

Experiment 9, Example F1

-   D_NTW_epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma ACUTE LEUKEMIA ACUTE    LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ADENOMA AGGRESSION ANEMIA ANOREXIA ARTHRITIS    ASCITES ASPIRATION ATAXIA ATHEROSCLEROSIS ATROPHY BENIGN PROSTATIC    HYPERPLASIA BLADDER CANCER BLADDER CARCINOMA BLEEDING BREAST-   CARCINOMA CARDIAC FAILURE CARDIOMYOPATHY CHORIOCARCINOMA CHRONIC    LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA COLON CANCER CONFUSION-   CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE CYST DEHYDRATION DIABETES MELLITUS DIARRHEA    DYSPNEA EMESIS ENDOMETRIAL CANCER EPISTAXIS ERYTHEMA ESOPHAGEAL    CARCINOMA FALL FATIGUE FEVER GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC CARCINOMA    GASTRITIS GROWTH RETARDATION HEADACHES HEPATITIS HEPATITIS B    HEPATOMA HERPES SIMPLEX HYPERACTIVITY HYPERGLYCEMIA HYPERSENSITIVITY    HYPERTENSION HYPERTROPHY HYPDXIA IMMUNODEFICIENCY INFLUENZA ISCHEMIA    LEIOMYOMA LUNG-   CANCER LUNG DISEASE LYMPHOMA MELANOMA MENOPAUSE MYELODYSPLASTIC    SYNDROME MYELOMA MYOCARDIAL INFARCT NAUSEA NECK STIFFNESS NEUROPATHY    NEUTROPENIA-   NEVUS OBESITY OCCLUSION OVARIAN CANCER OVARIAN CARCINOMA    PANCREATITIS PARKINSON'S DISEASE PLEURAL EFFUSION PROSTATE CANCER    PROSTATE CARCINOMA RECTAL CANCER RELAXATION RENAL CARCINOMA RENAL    CELL CANCER SARCOMA SCHIZOPHRENIA SHOCK SKIN CANCER SQUAMOUS CELL    CARCINOMA STOMATITIS STROKE SWELLING SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS    T-CELL LYMPHOMA TELANGIECTASIA THROMBOCYTOPENIA THYROID CARCINOMA    WEIGHT GAIN WEIGHT LOSS WOUND-   D_NTW_facial hemiatrophy ATROPHY SCLERODERMA-   D_NTW_frozen shoulder DIABETES MELLITUS FRACTURE SHOULDER PAIN    TENSION TRAUMA-   D_NTW_linitis plastica BREAST CARCINOMA GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC    CARCINOMA-   D_NTW_pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA    ADENOMA AGGRESSION AIDS ANEMIA ARTHRITIS ASPIRATION ATAXIA ATROPHY    BASAL CELL CARCINOMA BLADDER-   CANCER BLEEDING BREAST CARCINOMA CARDIOMYOPATHY CHRONIC-   LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA COLON CANCER CONFUSION CYST DERMATITIS DIABETES    MELLITUS DIARRHEA EMESIS ENDOMETRIAL-   CANCER ENDOMETRIOSIS EPILEPSY ERYTHEMA EXCITEMENT EXTRAVASATION FALL    FEVER GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC-   CARCINOMA GOITER GROWTH RETARDATION HEADACHES HEPATITIS HERPES    SIMPLEX HISTIOCYTOSES HYPERACTIVITY HYPERGLYCEMIA HYPERKERATOSIS    HYPERSENSITIVITY HYPERTENSION HYPERTROPHY HYPOXIA IMMUNODEFICIENCY    INFLAMMATORY-   BOWEL DISEASE ISCHEMIA KERATOSIS LUNG CANCER LUNG DISEASE    LYMPHADENOPATHY LYMPHOMA MELANOMA MENTAL RETARDATION MYELODYSPLASTIC    SYNDROME MYELOMA MYELOPROLIFERATIVE-   DISORDER NAUSEA NEUROPATHY NEUTROPENIA NEVUS OBESITY OCCLUSION    OVARIAN CANCER OVARIAN CARCINOMA PANCREATITIS PARKINSON'S DISEASE    PNEUMONIA PROSTATE-   CANCER RECTAL CANCER SARCOMA SEIZURE SHOCK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA    STARVATION SWELLING TENSION THROMBOCYTOPENIA THYROID CARCINOMA    ULCERATIVE COLITIS WEAKNESS WOUND-   D_NTW_WHIM syndrome ABUSE ACUTE LEUKEMIA ACUTE-   LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ACUTE MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA ADENOMA AGGRESSION    AIDS ALLERGIC RHINITIS ALLERGY ANEMIA ANEURYSM ARTERIOSCLEROSIS    ARTHRITIS ASCITES ASTHMA ATHEROSCLEROSIS ATROPHY BASAL CELL    CARCINOMA BLADDER-   CANCER BLADDER CARCINOMA BLEEDING BREAST CARCINOMA BRONCHIOLITIS    CARDIAC FAILURE CARDIOMYOPATHY CHORIOCARCINOMA CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC    LEUKEMIA CHRONIC-   OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE CMV COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT COLON-   CANCER CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE CORONARY OCCLUSION CROHN'S-   DISEASE DEMENTIA DEMYELINATION DEPRESSION DERMATITIS DIABETES    MELLITUS DIARRHEA ENCEPHALITIS ENCEPHALOPATHY ENDOMETRIAL CANCER    ENDOMETRIOSIS EOSINOPHILIA ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA EXCITEMENT    EXHAUSTION EXTRAVASATION FALL FATIGUE FATTY LIVER FEVER FRACTURE    GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC CARCINOMA GASTRIC ULCER GASTRITIS GRANULOMA    GROWTH RETARDATION HEPATIC FAILURE HEPATITIS HEPATITIS B HEPATOMA    HERPES SIMPLEX HYPERACTIVITY HYPERALGESIA HYPERGLYCEMIA    HYPERSENSITIVITY HYPERTENSION HYPERTROPHY HYPDXIA IDIOPATHIC    PULMONARY FIBROSIS IMMUNODEFICIENCY INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE    INFLUENZA INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONITIS ISCHEMIA ITCH KIDNEY-   DYSFUNCTION LEUKOCYTOSIS LIVER CIRRHOSIS LIVER DAMAGE LIVER FAILURE    LIVER NECROSIS LUNG CANCER LUNG DISEASE LUNG FIBROSIS LYMPHOCYTIC    LEUKAEMIA LYMPHOMA LYMPHOPENIA MACULAR DEGENERATION MELANOMA    MENOPAUSE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME MYELOFIBROSIS    MYELOID LEUKAEMIA MYELOMA MYOCARDIAL-   INFARCT NAUSEA NEPHRITIS NEPHROPATHY NERVE DAMAGE NEUROPATHY    NEUROTOXICITY NEUTROPENIA OBESITY OBLITERATIVE BRONCHIOLITIS    OCCLUSION OSTEOLYSIS OSTEOPOROSIS OVARIAN CANCER OVARIAN CARCINOMA    PERIODONTAL DISEASE PERIODONTITIS PLEURISY PNEUMONIA POLYCYTHEMIA    PROSTATE CANCER PROSTATE CARCINOMA PULMONARY FIBROSIS PULMONARY    HYPERTENSION RECTAL CANCER RENAL CARCINOMA RENAL CELL CANCER RENAL    DISEASE RENAL FAILURE RETINOPATHY RHINITIS SARCOMA SCARRING    SCLERODERMA SEPSIS SHOCK SKIN CANCER SQUAMOUS CELL-   CARCINOMA STOMATITIS STROKE SUPERINFECTION SYSTEMIC LUPUS-   ERYTHEMATOSUS T-CELL LYMPHOMA TENSION THROMBOCYTHEMIA    THROMBOCYTOPENIA THROMBOSIS THYROID 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1. A method of tracking information flows through multiple networksystems comprising: selecting a primary network system from a populationof primary and secondary network systems, wherein each of the primaryand secondary network systems comprise network nodes; selecting firstselected characteristic features that identify network nodes of theprimary network system that provide interaction between the selectedprimary network system and secondary network systems; identifying atleast one secondary network system that is capable of interacting withthe network nodes of the primary network system; subdividing the primarynetwork into subnetwork systems based on identifying primary networknodes that provide interaction between the primary network system andsecondary network nodes; identifying the subnetwork systems that arecapable of interacting with one or more network nodes of the secondarynetwork systems; identifying a subnetwork node count of the primarynetwork nodes in each subnetwork; identifying objects that are capableof interacting with the primary network nodes; and determining acoincidence frequency or a coincidence measurement between features ofobjects interacting with the primary network nodes and the features ofthe primary network nodes that indicate information exchanges betweenthe primary and secondary network nodes.
 2. The method of claim 1,wherein the first selected characteristic features are selected fromproper names, synonyms or symbols of network nodes of interactionnetwork systems, measurements associated with network nodes ofinteraction network systems, a plurality of measurements associated withnetwork nodes of interaction network systems, proper names and synonymsof groups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols of networknodes of interaction network systems, and symbols of groups of networknodes of interaction network systems.
 3. The method of claim 1, whereinidentifying at least one secondary network system that is capable ofinteracting with the network nodes of the primary network systemincludes: randomly selecting second selected characteristic features ofnetwork nodes of randomly selected interaction networks stored in adatabase; using the first selected characteristic features and thesecond selected characteristic features for determining coincidencefrequencies or coincident measurements of the first selectedcharacteristic features with the second selected characteristic featuresand recording the results; and using the recorded coincidence frequencyor coincidence measurement results for selecting one or more secondarynetwork systems having at least one network node capable of interactingwith the primary network system.
 4. The method of claim 3, wherein thedatabase comprises one or more of the Medline database, PubMeddatabases, EMBL databases, World Traditional Medicine Patent Database,Chinese Traditional Medicine Database, complementary and alternativemedicine databases, Wikipedia, collections of digitized publications,measurements collected by surveillance systems, measurements collectedby bio-surveillance systems, measurements collected by diagnosticsystems, measurements collected by wearable devices, measurementscollected by wearable electronic systems, measurements collected bywearable sensors, measurements collected by wearable diagnostic systems,measurements collected through crowd sourcing, medical record databases,adverse event reporting system databases, DHARA databases, and Ayurvedahealth care system databases.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein thesecondary network systems comprise one or more of the internet, socialnetworks, ecologic networks, biologic networks, nutrient networks,biologic communication networks, epidemiologic networks, proteinnetworks, supply networks, demand networks, shopping networks,electricity networks, power transmission networks, manufacturingnetworks, traffic networks, communication networks, wireless networks,financial networks, protein networks, cellular networks, cellularpathways, metabolic networks, gene networks, physiologic networks, organsystem networks, cellular communication networks, cell signalingnetworks, intracellular communication networks, neuronal networks,disease networks, organelle networks, bacterial networks, viralnetworks, health care networks, security networks, criminal networks,military networks, immunologic networks, and intelligence networks. 6.The method of claim 1, wherein subdividing the primary network intosubnetworks includes: selecting characteristic features of the primarynetwork nodes; selecting characteristic features of the secondarynetwork nodes; and using the characteristic features of the primarynetwork nodes and secondary network nodes for determining coincidentmeasurements or co-occurrence frequency measurements indicatinginteractions between the primary network nodes and secondary networknodes in the database and recording the results.
 7. The method of claim1, comprising determining the capacity of the objects to affectinformation transfer between the primary network system and a selectedsecondary network system using: a first process including: selectingontologies of the subnetworks; and selecting ontologies of objectscapable of interacting with said subnetwork for determining coincidencefrequencies or coincidence measurements between instances in saidsubnetworks ontologies and instances in said object ontologies; andrecording the result for said co-occurrence frequency or coincidencemeasurements; a second process including: selecting a threshold for saidco-occurrence frequency or coincidence measurements for determining thenumber of subnetwork nodes in subnetworks having co-occurrencefrequencies or coincidence measurements above said selected threshold;and recording the results as object reachable subnetwork node counts ofthe subnetworks or as edge density measurements for said object and saidsubnetworks; and storing the results as edge density based objectdescriptors that provide estimates for the capacity of the objects toaffect a transfer of information between the primary network system anda selected plurality of the secondary network systems.
 8. The method ofclaim 7, further comprising normalizing the edge density based objectdescriptors by determining ratios of the edge density measurements andthe subnetwork node counts of the subnetworks of the primary networksystem.
 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the ratios are determinedusing an instance of object associated edge density measurements as anumerator and an instance of subnetwork node counts of subnetworks ofthe primary network as a denominator, and the method includes recordingthe resulting node count ratios.
 10. The method of claim 8, wherein theratios are determined using an instance of object associated edgedensity measurements as a denominator and an instance of subnetwork nodecounts of subnetworks of the primary network as a numerator, and themethod includes recording the resulting node count ratios.
 11. Themethod of claim 8, comprising aggregating the count ratios for theselected subnetworks and using the aggregated count ratios as estimatesof the capacity of objects to affect information transfer betweenselected subnetworks of the selected primary network system and aselected secondary network system.
 12. The method of claim 1, comprisingdetermining a second set of descriptor sets by: identifying objects thatare capable of interacting with the primary network nodes by selectingcharacteristic features of the objects and determining occurrencefrequencies or coincident measurements between the selectedcharacteristic features of the objects and characteristic features ofthe primary network nodes; identifying and counting a number of networknodes in each subnetwork of the primary network that are capable ofinteracting or exchanging information with the identified objects;recording the node counts as focused subnetwork node counts; adding theco-occurrence frequency or coincident measurements of objects associatedwith respective subnetwork nodes of subnetworks of the primary networkand recording the results as identifying a sum of co-occurrencefrequency measurements for the objects obtained for each subnetwork nodeof subnetworks of the primary network 200; storing the sum ofco-occurrence frequency measurements of said objects for said subnetworknode of the primary network as information density measurements of theobjects, wherein the information density measurements of said objectsprovide estimates of the capacity of objects to affect informationtransfer between the subnetworks and the selected secondary networksystems; further comprising aggregating the information densitymeasurements of said objects for the selected subnetworks and using theaggregated information density measurements of said objects as estimatesof the capacity of objects to affect information transfer betweenselected subnetworks of the selected primary network system and aselected secondary network system.
 13. The method of claim 1, comprisingusing the second descriptor set in hierarchical cluster analysis toidentify groups of objects that induce similar routing of informationflows in a plurality of interacting network systems and groups ofnetwork topologies regulating similar information flows.
 14. The methodof claim 7, comprising using the edge density based object descriptorsfor information flow analysis.
 15. The method of claim 12, comprisingusing the second descriptor set for information flow analysis.
 16. Themethod of claim 7, wherein the subnetwork ontologies are derived fromprotein networks for creating the descriptors for information flowanalysis
 17. The method of claim 7, wherein the sub network ontologiesare disease based and derived from protein networks for creating thedescriptors for information flow analysis
 18. The method of claim 7,wherein the sub network ontologies are Medra Term based sub networkontologies derived from protein networks for creating the descriptorsfor information flow analysis
 19. The method of claim 7, wherein the subnetwork ontologies are physiology based sub network ontologies derivedfrom protein networks for creating the descriptors for information flowanalysis
 20. The method of claim 12, comprising using the seconddescriptor set for information flow analysis for selected herbs anddrugs using disease based sub network ontologies derived from proteinnetworks.
 21. The method of claim 12, comprising using the seconddescriptor set for information flow analysis for selected herbs anddrugs using Medra Term based sub network ontologies derived from proteinnetworks.
 22. The method of claim 12, comprising using the seconddescriptor set for information flow analysis for selected herbs anddrugs using physiology based sub network ontologies derived from proteinnetworks.
 23. The method of claim 7, comprising using the edge densitybased object descriptors for information flow analysis for selectedherbs and drugs using disease based sub network ontologies derived fromprotein networks.
 24. The method of claim 7, comprising using the edgedensity based object descriptors for information flow analysis forselected herbs and drugs using Medra Term based sub network ontologiesderived from protein networks.
 25. The method of claim 7, comprisingusing the edge density based object descriptors for information flowanalysis for selected herbs and drugs using physiology based sub networkontologies derived from protein networks.
 26. A method for producingnovel descriptors of objects or persons comprising: a first step ofselecting a first set of characteristic features of network-nodes of afirst interaction network system of interest further comprising the useof said selected characteristic features of said network nodes of saidfirst selected interaction network system for creating a firstdescriptor set of said first interaction network system; wherein thecharacteristic features may be selected from the group comprising propernames, synonyms or symbols of network nodes of interaction networksystems, measurements associated with network nodes of interactionnetwork systems, a plurality of measurements associated with networknodes of interaction network systems, proper names and synonyms ofgroups of network nodes of interaction networks, symbols of networknodes of interaction network systems, symbols of groups of network nodesof interaction network systems; wherein the interaction network systemsmay be selected from the group comprising the internet, social networks,ecologic networks, biologic networks, epidemiologic networks, supplynetworks, demand networks, shopping networks, electricity networks,power transmission networks, manufacturing networks, traffic networks,communication networks, wireless networks, financial networks, proteinnetworks, cellular networks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, genenetworks, physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellularcommunication networks, cell signaling networks, intracellularcommunication networks, neuronal networks, disease networks, organellenetworks, bacterial networks, viral networks, health care networks,security networks, criminal networks; a second step of using said firstdescriptor set of said first network system for selecting a second,third, fourth . . . nth interaction network system interacting directlyor indirectly or exchanging information directly or indirectly with saidfirst interaction network system by using: a first process for randomlyselecting characteristic features of network-nodes of randomly selectedinteraction networks in a databases; a second process using said firstdescriptor set of said first network system and said randomly selectedcharacteristic features of network nodes of said randomly selectedinteraction network system for determining coincidence frequencies orcoincident measurements of said first descriptor set with said randomlyselected characteristic features of network nodes of said randomlyselected interaction networks in said database and recording theresults; and a third process using said recorded results for selecting asecond, third, fourth . . . nth interaction network system possessing atleast one network node capable of interacting with or exchanginginformation with said first selected interaction network system; whereinthe database may be selected from the group comprising the Medlinedatabase, PubMed databases, EMBL databases, World Traditional MedicinePatent Database, Chinese Traditional Medicine Database, complementaryand alternative medicine database, Wikipedia, collections of digitizedpublications, measurements collected by surveillance systems,measurements collected by bio surveillance systems, measurementscollected by diagnostic systems, measurements collected by wearabledevices, measurements collected by wearable electronic systems,measurements collected by wearable sensors, measurements collected bywearable diagnostic systems, measurements collected through crowdsourcing, medical record database, adverse event reporting systemdatabase, DHARA database, Ayurveda health care system databases; whereinthe second process for determining coincidence frequencies or coincidentmeasurements comprises the selection of an instance of a firstdescriptor set and the selection of an instance of a second descriptorset and the selection of a database and the use of a text mining meansfor determining how often an instance of a first descriptor setco-occurs with an instance of a second descriptor set in said databaseand recording the results; likewise determination of coincidencemeasurements comprises the selection of an instance of a firstdescriptor set and the selection of an instance of a second descriptorset and the selection of a data bases and the use of a means foridentifying measurements relating an instance of a first descriptor setand an instance of a second descriptor set in said database andrecording the results; a third step comprising a third method forselecting a second, third, fourth . . . nth set of characteristicfeatures of network-nodes of said second, third, fourth, nth interactionnetwork system further comprising the use of said second, third, fourth. . . nth set of characteristic features of said network nodes of saidsecond, third, fourth, . . . nth interaction network system for creatinga second, third, fourth . . . nth descriptor set of said second, third,fourth . . . nth interaction network system selected in said secondstep. a fourth step comprising a fourth method using said firstdescriptor set of said first interaction network system and using saidsecond, third, fourth . . . nth descriptor set of said second, third,fourth . . . nth interaction network system and said second process ofsaid second step and said databases for selecting subsets of descriptorsets of said first interaction network systems describing subsets ofnetwork nodes of said first interaction network system interactingdirectly or indirectly or exchanging information directly or indirectlywith network nodes of said second, third, fourth . . . nth interactionnetwork system. a fourth process for determining the number of networknodes in said first, second, third, fourth subnetwork system of saidfirst interaction network systems and recording the results wherein saidresults may be termed first, second, third, fourth . . . nthsubnetwork-node counts of said subnetwork system of said firstinteraction network system are further termed SN1-nCN1 a fifth stepcomprising a fifth method for selecting a finite set of objects termedO1-m interacting directly or indirectly or exchanging informationdirectly or indirectly with said first interaction network system,wherein said fifth method comprises a fifth process using said firstdescriptor set of said first interaction network system and usingrandomly selected characteristic features of randomly selected objectsand said second process of said second step and said databases fordetermining coincidence frequencies or coincident measurements of saidfirst descriptor set with said randomly selected characteristic featuresof said randomly selected objects in said databases. selectingcoincidence frequency measurements or a coincident measurement thresholdand using said threshold for selecting incidences of said coincidencefrequency measurements or said coincident measurements for saiddescriptor sets in said databases and recording the results. using saidselected coincidence frequency measurements or coincident measurementsfor selecting objects capable of interacting or exchanging informationwith at least one or a plurality of network nodes of said first selectedinteraction network system and recording said selected objects in adatabase. wherein the objects are selected from the group comprisingmembers of social networks, members of financial networks, members ofecologic networks, prescription medicines, over the counter drugs,medicinal herbs, natural products, Ayurvedic medicines, Chinesetraditional medicines, Natural medicines, bacteria, algae, Organic andinorganic chemical compositions, Foods, nutrients, vitamins,microorganisms, viruses, supplements, vitamins, mobile devices,patients, clients, communities, members of communities, financialinstruments, bonds, companies, members of physiologic networks, membersof organ system networks, members of cellular networks members of tissuenetworks a sixth step comprising the selection of a first set ofcharacteristic features of said selected objects and the use of saidcharacteristic features of said selected objects as first intermittentdescriptor set of said selected objects. wherein the first set ofcharacteristic features of said objects are selected from the groupcomprising proper names and synonyms of objects, symbols for objects,collection of physical properties of objects, collections ofmeasurements associated with objects, unique identifiers of objects in adatabase a seventh step comprising a sixth method using said firstintermittent descriptor set of said objects and using said first,second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork descriptor sets of said firstselected interaction network system and using said second process ofsaid second step and using said databases for identifying objectscapable of interacting directly or indirectly or of exchanginginformation directly or indirectly with at least one network node ofsaid first, second, third, fourth . . . nth subnetwork system of saidfirst network system and recording the results; the sixth method maycomprise a process using said first set of intermittent objectdescriptors and said first, second, third, fourth . . . nth set ofsubnetwork descriptors of said first, second, third, fourth . . . nthsubnetwork of said first selected interaction network system and saidsecond process of said second step and said databases for determiningcoincidence frequencies or coincident measurements of said first set ofintermittent object descriptors and said first, second, third, fourth .. . nth subnetwork descriptors of said subnetwork systems of said firstselected interaction network system in said database and recording theresults; selecting a threshold of said coincidence frequencymeasurements or coincident measurements for selecting at least one or aplurality of network nodes in said first, second, third, fourth . . .nth subnetwork system of said first interaction network system capableof interacting or exchanging information with said objects; a tenthprocess for counting the number of said selected network nodes for saidsubnetwork systems and said objects and recording the results whereinsaid results are termed first, second, third, fourth . . . nthobject-subnetwork-interaction node counts hereinafter further termedO1-n SN1-n ICN1; an eight step including a seventh method using saidobject-subnetwork-interaction node counts termed O1-n SN1-n ICN1 of saidobjects as numerators and using said subnetwork-node counts termedSN1-nCN1 of said subnetworks of said first interaction network system asdenominator for determining the ratio between said subnetwork nodecounts and recording the result for said objects O1-m and saidsubnetwork system SN11-n wherein said results, termed normalized first,second, third, fourth object subnetwork-interaction interference scores,are further termed O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1; a ninth step comprising therecording of said normalized object-subnetwork interaction interferencescores O1-mSN1-n IFSCN1 for said subnetwork systems as descriptors ofsaid objects in a database; a tenth step comprising an eighth methodusing said object-subnetwork interaction interference scores O1-mSN1-nIFSCN1 and an eleventh process for determining similarities between saidobject-subnetwork interaction interference scores of said objects anddisplaying the results; wherein the eleventh process is selected fromthe group comprising hierarchical cluster analysis, principal componentanalysis, vector machines, k means analysis, profile similarityanalysis.
 27. The method of claim 26, wherein the objects are selectedfrom the group comprising members of social networks, members offinancial networks, members of ecologic networks, prescriptionmedicines, over the counter drugs, medicinal herbs, natural products,Ayurvedic medicines, Chinese traditional medicines, Natural medicines,bacteria, algae, Organic and inorganic chemical compositions, Foods,nutrients, vitamins, microorganisms, viruses, supplements, vitamins,mobile devices, patients, clients, communities, members of communities,financial instruments, bonds, companies, members of physiologicnetworks, members of organ system networks, members of cellular networksmembers of tissue networks.
 28. The method of claim 26, wherein thedescriptors are used for determining similarities between informationflows induced by said objects or persons in interaction networks, andwherein said interaction networks are selected from the group comprisingthe internet, social networks, ecologic networks, biologic networks,epidemiologic networks, supply networks, demand networks, shoppingnetworks, electricity networks, power transmission networks,manufacturing networks, traffic networks, communication networks,wireless networks, financial networks, protein networks, cellularnetworks, cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks,physiologic networks, organ system networks, cellular communicationnetworks, cell signaling networks, intracellular communication networks,neuronal networks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterialnetworks, viral networks, health care networks, security networks,criminal networks.
 29. The method of claim 26, wherein the networksystems are selected from the group comprising epidemiologic networks,biologic communication networks, protein networks, cellular networks,cellular pathways, metabolic networks, gene networks, physiologicnetworks, organ system networks, cellular communication networks, cellsignaling networks, intracellular communication networks, neuronalnetworks, disease networks, organelle networks, bacterial networks,viral networks.
 30. The method of claim 26, wherein the objects areselected from the group comprising prescription medicines, traditionalmedicines, medicinal herbs, foods, natural products, experimentalmedicines, Ayurvedic medicines, microorganisms, infectious agents. 31.The method of claim 26, wherein the coincidence measurements areselected from the group comprising measurements produced by wearabledevices.